Intel Core i7-8700K vs Intel Core i7-9700

Core i7-8700K vs Core i7-9700 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-9700 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-9700 has slightly more cores than the Core i7-8700K. Indeed, the Core i7-9700 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8700K. Despite this, the Core i7-8700K has more threads than the Core i7-9700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i7-9700 outputs less heat than Core i7-8700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-9700 has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700K. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.