Intel Core i7-14700KF vs Intel Core i9-14900F

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

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Intel Core i9-14900F

Price

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$ 357.07

$ 116.07 significantly less expensive

$ 473.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

15150 points

9% slightly better overall score

13852 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

15322 points

3% slightly better gaming score

14835 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

15151 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

13629 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

15281 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

13729 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

14250 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

12965 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

442.38 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

316.49 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19170 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

18063 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2961 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2847 points

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

69% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.6 GHz

5.8 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

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

22nd of 1,089

34th 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

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600

Core i7-14700KF vs Core i9-14900F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900F beats the Core i7-14700KF in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-14700KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900F has slightly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Core i7-14700KF has 20 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-14700KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-14700KF has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900F. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-14900F has more L2 cache than the Core i7-14700KF. The Core i9-14900F 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 i7-14700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.