Intel Core i9-12900K vs Intel Core i7-14700KF

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Price

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$ 289.00
$ 68.07 slightly less expensive
$ 357.07

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13335 points
15185 points
13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14237 points
15351 points
7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13039 points
15188 points
16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

12988 points
15318 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11701 points
14250 points
21% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

364.47 points
442.38 points
21% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15365 points
19170 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2616 points
2961 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
20
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
28
16% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
3.4 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz
5.6 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
Identical
20

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

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB
33 MiB
10% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

38th of 1,109
20th of 1,109

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9
Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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