Intel Core i7-7700 vs Intel Core i7-9700K

Core i7-7700 vs Core i7-9700K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-9700K 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-9700K has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7700. Indeed, the Core i7-9700K has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-7700. But they both have the same number of threads. According to our data, the Core i7-7700 and Core i7-9700K have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-9700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-7700 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-9700K has more L2 cache than the Core i7-7700. The Core i7-9700K also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.