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

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i9 10 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

$ 484.10
$ 334.99
$ 149.11 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8226 points
16063 points
95% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8838 points
16190 points
83% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8007 points
16059 points
100% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7938 points
16174 points
103% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8988 points
14813 points
64% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

231.23 points
445.12 points
92% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15821 points
35892 points
126% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9141 points
18777 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1778 points
2921 points
64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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

3.7 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed
3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz
5.6 GHz
5% 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

2.5 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

138th of 1,089
17th 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
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i9-10900K vs Core i7-14700K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700K beats the Core i9-10900K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10900K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-14700K has significantly more cores than the Core i9-10900K. Indeed, the Core i7-14700K has 20 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i9-10900K. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10900K. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700K. Despite this, the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14700K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900K. The Core i7-14700K also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-10900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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