Intel Core i7-14700K vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255H

Core i7-14700K vs Core Ultra 7 255H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700K beats the Core Ultra 7 255H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 7 255H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700K has slightly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core Ultra 7 255H that has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 255H. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-14700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 255H. Also, the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-14700K 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.