Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Core i9-14900HX

Core i7-8700 vs Core i9-14900HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900HX is faster than the Core i7-8700. 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 i9-14900HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i7-8700 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900HX. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-14900HX has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. The Core i9-14900HX 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.