Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Core i7-14700K

Core i7-8700 vs Core i7-14700K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700K beats the Core i7-8700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700K has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i7-8700 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8700. Also, the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14700K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. 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 i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.