Intel Core i7-14700KF vs Intel Core i5-14600K

Core i7-14700KF vs Core i5-14600K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700KF beats the Core i5-14600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14600K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700KF has many more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i5-14600K that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-14700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14700KF has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-14600K. The Core i7-14700KF 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 i7-14700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.