Intel Core i7-14700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Core i7-14700K vs Ryzen 7 7700 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700K beats the Ryzen 7 7700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7700 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700K has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700K. Despite this, the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700K has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7700. The Core i7-14700K also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-14700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.