Intel Core i7-14700T vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840U

Core i7-14700T vs Ryzen 7 8840U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 8840U is faster than the Core i7-14700T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-14700T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-14700T has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 8840U. Indeed, the Core i7-14700T has 20 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 8840U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8840U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8840U has a significantly higher clock speed than 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 Ryzen 7 8840U. The Core i7-14700T also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-14700T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.