AMD Ryzen 7 7700 vs Intel Core i7-14700

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs Intel 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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$ 276.36

$ 122.60 significantly less expensive

$ 398.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10739 points

11732 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12739 points

13191 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10048 points

11333 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9834 points

11315 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8548 points

12400 points

45% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

266.15 points

293.94 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14835 points

15696 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2879 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2720 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

75% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz

81% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

5.4 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

28 MiB

250% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

33 MiB

3% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

74th of 1,089

55th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 7700 vs Core i7-14700 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-14700 performs better than the Ryzen 7 7700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700 has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7700 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7700. The Core i7-14700 also has slightly 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 Ryzen 7 7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.