Intel Core i7-8086K vs Intel Core i7-14700K

Core i7-8086K vs Core i7-14700K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700K beats the Core i7-8086K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8086K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-14700K has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8086K. Indeed, the Core i7-14700K has 20 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8086K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8086K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8086K 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 i7-8086K. 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 i7-8086K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.