Intel Core i7-3520M vs Intel Core i9-14900K

Core i7-3520M vs Core i9-14900K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900K beats the Core i7-3520M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3520M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-14900K has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i7-3520M that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3520M. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-14900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3520M.

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 i7-3520M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.