Intel Core i7-14700K vs Intel Core i9-14900

Core i7-14700K vs Core i9-14900 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700K beats the Core i9-14900 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-14900 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900 has slightly more cores than the Core i7-14700K. Indeed, the Core i9-14900 has 24 cores compared to 20 cores found in the Core i7-14700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-14700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-14700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900. Despite this, the Core i9-14900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-14700K. The Core i9-14900 also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-14700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.