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

Core i7-7700K vs Core i7-9700K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-9700K performs better than the Core i7-7700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7700K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9700K has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-7700K has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700K. Despite this, the Core i7-9700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-9700K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-7700K. 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 i7-7700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.