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

Core i7-8700K vs Core i7-9700T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700K beats the Core i7-9700T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-9700T has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-8700K that has 6 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-8700K has more threads than the Core i7-9700T. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700T. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9700T 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.

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.