Intel Core i7-14700T vs Intel Core i9-9900KS

Core i7-14700T vs Core i9-9900KS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9900KS is faster than the Core i7-14700T. Despite this, the Core i7-14700T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700T has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i9-9900KS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900KS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-9900KS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700T. Despite this, the Core i7-14700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-9900KS. The Core i7-14700T also has significantly 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 i7-14700T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.