The Intel Core i7 14700K brings something genuinely new to the table. It offers four more E-cores than the Core i7 13700K, and it's a touch faster, for a couple dollars more. With tangible benefits and near-enough price parity, it's arguably the only 14th Gen processor worth seeking out instead of the 13th Gen for your next PC build.
The 14700K comes with eight Performance-cores (P-cores) and 12 Efficient-cores (E-cores), bundled together for around $418 today. That's roughly on the mark for Intel's recommended customer pricing but more importantly only a few dollars more than a Core i7 13700K at $415, effectively killing the last-gen chip cold. While the architecture remains the same between the two—both utilise the Raptor Lake hybrid architecture—the 14700K comes with four more E-cores and 100–200MHz higher clocks on both E-cores and P-cores under Boost.
