Intel Core i7-14700T vs Intel Xeon Platinum 8170M

Compare Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 core CPU vs Intel 26 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9254 points
9479 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11301 points
95% significantly better gaming score
5786 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8700 points
10851 points
24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8646 points
11649 points
34% slightly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

20
26
30% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
52
85% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.3 GHz
2.10 GHz
61% significantly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

28 MiB
7% slightly more L2 cache
26 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

33 MiB
35.75 MiB
8% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

106th of 1,102
100th of 1,102

Family

The product line

Core i7 (14th gen)
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Core i7-14700T vs Xeon Platinum 8170M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Platinum 8170M beats the Core i7-14700T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-14700T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Platinum 8170M has slightly more cores with 26 cores compared to the Core i7-14700T that has 20 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-14700T. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon Platinum 8170M has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14700T has slightly more L2 cache than the Xeon Platinum 8170M. Despite this, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700T.

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 i7-14700T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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