AMD Ryzen 7 7700X vs Intel Core i7-14700KF

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-14700KF

Price

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$ 246.84

$ 110.23 significantly less expensive

$ 357.07

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10008 points

15150 points

51% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12170 points

15322 points

25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9291 points

15151 points

63% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9088 points

15281 points

68% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9007 points

14250 points

58% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

281.95 points

442.38 points

56% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15466 points

19170 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2977 points

0.54% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2961 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

4.50 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz

5.6 GHz

3% 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

89th of 1,089

22nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 7700X vs Core i7-14700KF comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700KF is faster than the Ryzen 7 7700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7700X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700KF has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-14700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700KF has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 7700X. The Core i7-14700KF 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 Ryzen 7 7700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.