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

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

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

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700KF has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core i9-10900KF has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10900KF. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-10900KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-14700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700KF has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10900KF. The Core i7-14700KF 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 i9-10900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.