Intel Core i9-10900 vs Intel Core i7-14700T

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i9 10 core CPU vs Intel 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7582 points
7595 points
0.17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8692 points
10203 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7207 points
5% slightly better multitasking score
6863 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7099 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score
6739 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.66 points
215.05 points
30% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
20
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
28
40% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
115% significantly higher clock speed
1.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz
Identical
5.2 GHz

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

2.5 MiB
28 MiB
1019% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB
33 MiB
64% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

164th of 1,089
163rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9
Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i9-10900 vs Core i7-14700T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10900 is faster than the Core i7-14700T. Despite this, the Core i7-14700T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700T has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core i9-10900 has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10900. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10900 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14700T has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900. 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 i9-10900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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