Intel Core i9-14900KF vs Intel Core i7-14700KF

Core i9-14900KF vs Core i7-14700KF benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900KF beats the Core i7-14700KF in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-14700KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900KF has slightly more cores than the Core i7-14700KF. Indeed, the Core i9-14900KF has 24 cores compared to 20 cores found in the Core i7-14700KF. It also has more threads than the Core i7-14700KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-14700KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900KF. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900KF has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-14700KF. The Core i9-14900KF 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 i9-14900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.