Intel Core i7-3770K vs Intel Core i7-14700

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 344.89
$ 54.07 slightly less expensive
$ 398.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2702 points
11732 points
334% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4366 points
13191 points
202% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2208 points
11333 points
413% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2118 points
11315 points
434% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2148 points
12400 points
477% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.21 points
293.94 points
522% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2489 points
15696 points
530% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

709 points
2720 points
283% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
20
400% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
28
250% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
66% significantly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
5.4 GHz
38% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
192 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

588th of 1,089
55th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-3770K vs Core i7-14700 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700 beats the Core i7-3770K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700 has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core i7-3770K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3770K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700. Despite this, the Core i7-14700 has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i7-3770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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