AMD Ryzen 7 7700X vs Intel Core i7-14700

Ryzen 7 7700X vs Core i7-14700 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7700X is faster than the Core i7-14700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-14700 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 7700X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 7700X. 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 7700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.