Intel Core i7-7700 vs Intel Core i7-14700K

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i7 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

$ 102.50
$ 232.49 significantly less expensive
$ 334.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3302 points
16063 points
386% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5286 points
16190 points
206% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2716 points
16059 points
491% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2607 points
16174 points
520% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3062 points
14813 points
383% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

74.17 points
445.12 points
500% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4482 points
18777 points
318% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1405 points
2921 points
107% 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

3.6 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5.6 GHz
33% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
20
25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
192 GiB
200% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
28 MiB
2700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
33 MiB
312% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

503rd of 1,092
17th of 1,092

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i7
Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-7700 vs Core i7-14700K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700K is faster than the Core i7-7700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7700 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700K has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core i7-7700 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700K. Despite this, the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700K has more L2 cache than the Core i7-7700. The Core i7-14700K 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 i7-7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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