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Core i7-14700 bottleneck & gaming FPS

Ranked 41 of 201 desktop processors for gaming in our database (80th percentile). It can sustain roughly 160 fps in a typical AAA title regardless of resolution — that ceiling is what decides whether a graphics card is worth pairing with it.

SpecificationsRaptor Lake · 2024
ArchitectureRaptor Lake
Cores8 performance + 12 efficiency
Threads28
Boost clock5,400 MHz
L3 cache33 MB
TDP65 W
Released2024
Processor ceiling by game1080p, high

The frame rate this chip could sustain with an infinitely fast graphics card. It is almost the same at every resolution, because rendering more pixels gives the processor no extra work.

GameCPU ceilingWith Radeon RX 7900 XT
Cyberpunk 2077 166 fps 105 fps
Fortnite 205 fps 202 fps
Counter-Strike 2 232 fps 228 fps
Baldur's Gate 3 139 fps 137 fps
Red Dead Redemption 2 182 fps 117 fps
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 92 fps 90 fps
Best matched graphics cards1080p, high

Ranked by how little performance the pairing wastes. Anything much faster than the top entry will sit partly idle at this resolution — though it may still be worth it if you plan to move to 1440p or 4K.

Graphics cardEst. FPSUnused
Radeon RX 7900 XT 152 3.5%
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 158 3.7%
Radeon RX 9070 XT 158 3.8%
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 158 9.6%
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 142 10.1%
GeForce RTX 4080 158 12.9%

What a Core i7-14700 is good for

A strong mainstream gaming chip. It will keep up with most graphics cards at 1440p and above, and only starts to show its limits at 1080p with a fast card and a high refresh rate panel.

For the majority of builds this is enough processor, and money is better spent on the graphics side.

Performance cores and efficiency cores

This chip mixes 8 performance cores with 12 efficiency cores. Games run almost entirely on the performance cores; the efficiency cores absorb background work so it does not interrupt them. That is genuinely useful, but it means the headline core count overstates gaming capability — our model counts about 14.5 effective cores here, weighting an efficiency core well below a performance one.

Hyper-threading is enabled, adding 28 total threads.

Where it sits

Ranked 41 of 201 desktop processors for gaming. Nearest faster: Ryzen 7 7700X3D, Ryzen 5 7600X3D. Just below: Core i7-14700F, Core Ultra 5 250K Plus. Full method on the methodology page.