Intel Core i7-9700 vs Intel Core i7-14700K

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 338.78
$ 334.99
$ 3.79 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5190 points
16063 points
209% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7573 points
16190 points
113% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4403 points
16059 points
264% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4217 points
16174 points
283% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5171 points
14813 points
186% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.42 points
445.12 points
318% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6222 points
18777 points
201% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1571 points
2921 points
85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
20
150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
28
250% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
3.4 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.6 GHz
19% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
20
25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
192 GiB
49% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
28 MiB
1300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
33 MiB
175% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

326th of 1,089
17th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i7
Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-9700 vs Core i7-14700K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700K is faster than the Core i7-9700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700K has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core i7-9700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-9700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700. Also, the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-9700. The Core i7-14700K 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. For instance, the Core i7-9700 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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