Intel Core i9-12900HK vs Intel Core i7-14700

Core i9-12900HK vs Core i7-14700 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700 is faster than the Core i9-12900HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900HK in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700 has many more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core i9-12900HK has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900HK. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900HK. The Core i7-14700 also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.