Intel Core i7-7700K vs Intel Core i7-9750H

Core i7-7700K vs Core i7-9750H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-9750H beats the Core i7-7700K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-7700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9750H has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-7700K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-7700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9750H. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i7-9750H 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. In terms of cache, the Core i7-9750H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-7700K. The Core i7-9750H 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.