Core i7-14700HX: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i7-14700HX is the Raptor Lake-HX Refresh workhorse of 2024 gaming laptops — a 20-core desktop-class processor squeezed into portable chassis. The catalog matches it to 28 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in all 69 of the 69 games the site tracks. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings to a portable, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Core i7-14700HX sits in 2026

A catalog score of 89.8 places the chip 17th of 741 scored laptop CPUs — the top few percent of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood is pure 2024–2025 premium: the Ryzen 7 7745HX (91.5), Core Ultra 7 255H (91.4) and Ryzen AI 9 365 (90) just above, the Ryzen 5 7645HX (88.2), Core i7-14650HX (88.2) and Core Ultra 5 225H (88) just below. Outscoring its own stablemate, the i7-14650HX, while sitting level with AMD's HX-class parts is the practical story — this is flagship-adjacent processing power without the very-top-tier price.

What the chip brings

Raptor Lake-HX Refresh is a 20-core, 28-thread design on a 7 nm-class process, rated at 55 W in its HX-class configuration: a 2.1 GHz base clock and up to 5.4 GHz boost across the hybrid P-core/E-core layout. The integrated Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 with 96 EUs handles display duties on the rare config without discrete graphics. Memory support and cache details were not captured for this chip, so the table above sticks to what the catalog verifiably holds: 2,495 single-core and 13,383 multi-core in Geekbench, plus a PassMark overall score of 36,663.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 69 of 69 cataloged games — a clean sweep that includes the most demanding entries on the list: Starfield, Helldivers 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Alan Wake 2, Black Myth Wukong and Hogwarts Legacy all sit at or above their recommended CPU bar, down through Fortnite and the lightest esports titles. There is no holdout. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays well depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, which on this roster is rarely the weak link.

Laptops that carry it

The 28-model roster is almost entirely 2024–2025 gaming hardware: Alienware M18 R2 at $2,485 tops the list, OMEN 16 Slim at $1,665, Legion 5i Gen 10 and LOQ 17IRX10 at $1,440, OMEN and Victus 16 machines around $1,280–$1,424, and the Legion 5 16IRX9 at $1,400. The Acer Nitro 16, Predator Helios Neo 18 and Predator Helios 16 mark the value end at $1,152, while the HP ZBook Fury 16 G11 at $1,408 covers the workstation angle. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at a perfect 100, engineering and modeling indices at 99, photo and design at 97, a gaming index of 82 and a best-GPU score of 84.5 — while mobility at 34 and portability at 24.4 say these are big, substantial machines rather than portables.

Bottom line

The Core i7-14700HX suits a buyer who wants processor headroom to spare: it clears the recommended CPU bar for every tracked game in the catalog, and the roster pairs it with serious graphics hardware from $1,152 to $2,485 — judge each listing by its GPU and chassis, since the CPU will not be the bottleneck. The trade-off is size and weight: these are gaming rigs and workstations, not ultrabooks. For compile-heavy, modeling or CAD work on the move, the roster medians put these machines near the top of the catalog's task indices.