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

Core i7-8700K vs Core i7-14700T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700T is faster than the Core i7-8700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700T has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core i7-8700K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700T. Despite this, the Core i7-14700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700T has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700K. The Core i7-14700T 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 i7-8700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.