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

Compare Intel Core X-series 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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Intel Core i7-14700

Price

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$ 478.79

$ 398.96

$ 79.83 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7550 points

11732 points

55% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8222 points

13191 points

60% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7324 points

11333 points

54% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7249 points

11315 points

56% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7406 points

12400 points

67% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

202.00 points

293.94 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9481 points

15696 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1574 points

2720 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

40% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

76% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

5.4 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

139% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

256 GiB

33% slightly more supported memory

192 GiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

33 MiB

32% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

165th of 1,089

55th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

2024 February

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

Yes

Core i9-10900X vs Core i7-14700 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700 is faster than the Core i9-10900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10900X in all gaming tests too.

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

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 i9-10900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.