Intel Core i7-7700K vs Intel Core i7-8700T

Core i7-7700K vs Core i7-8700T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8700T is faster than the Core i7-7700K. Despite this, the Core i7-7700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-8700T has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7700K. Indeed, the Core i7-8700T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-7700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700T. Also, the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8700T outputs less heat than Core i7-7700K thanks to a 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 i7-8700T has more L2 cache than the Core i7-7700K. The Core i7-8700T 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 i7-7700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.