Intel Core i7-4770K vs Intel Core i5-14600K

Core i7-4770K vs Core i5-14600K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-14600K beats the Core i7-4770K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4770K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14600K has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i7-4770K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4770K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4770K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14600K. Despite this, the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-14600K has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4770K. The Core i5-14600K 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 i7-4770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.