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

Compare Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 core CPU vs Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-14900K

Price

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$ 334.99

$ 104.00 significantly less expensive

$ 438.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

16063 points

16106 points

0.27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

16190 points

2% slightly better gaming score

15771 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

16059 points

16300 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

16174 points

16541 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

14813 points

16871 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

445.12 points

506.50 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

35892 points

41193 points

14% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

18777 points

20147 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2921 points

3053 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

20% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

14% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

192 GiB

Identical

192 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

28 MiB

32 MiB

14% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

33 MiB

36 MiB

9% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

17th of 1,089

16th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i7 (14th gen)

Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

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

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

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900K has slightly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Core i7-14700K has 20 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-14700K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900K. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900K has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-14700K. The Core i9-14900K 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.