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95%

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86%

PROCESSOR

Intel Core i7-14700

52,301 Benchmark Score

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Intel Arc A380

8,558 Benchmark Score

Top 14% Market Ranking

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90-100

Ultimate

4K Ultra gaming, VR ready, ray tracing enabled, professional workloads

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70-89

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50-69

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The Intel Core i7-14700 paired with the Intel Arc A380 is a study in asymmetry: a 20-core Raptor Lake Refresh processor sitting in the 91st percentile of all CPUs, driving a 6 GB entry-level graphics card in the 44th percentile of all GPUs. The combined build percentile of 68 reflects that imbalance — strong compute headroom attached to modest graphics throughput. No measured FPS data exists for this exact combination in the database, so all frame-rate discussion below is estimated from the benchmark scores rather than observed.

CPU Analysis

The Core i7-14700 is a 20-core, 28-thread desktop processor built on Intel's Raptor Lake-R refresh of the Raptor Lake architecture, manufactured on Intel's 10 nm node. It runs a 2.10 GHz base clock with boosts up to 5.40 GHz, inside a 65 W TDP envelope on Socket 1700. The cache hierarchy is substantial: 80 KB of L1 and 2 MB of L2 per core, plus 33 MB of shared L3. It supports both DDR4 and DDR5 across a dual-channel bus, includes ECC memory support — unusual for a mainstream consumer chip and relevant for workstation use — and offers PCIe Gen 5 with 16 CPU lanes. A UHD Graphics 770 iGPU is integrated, which matters here because it gives the build a fallback display path. The launch MSRP was $384.

The benchmark scores describe a genuinely high-end compute part. Cinebench R23 multi-core lands at 28398, with single-core at 2080; R20 posts 14388 multi and 2031 single; R15 records 4061 multi and 299 single. Geekbench shows 17087 multi-core and 2409 single-core. What those numbers mean in practice: this is a CPU that chews through parallel rendering, compilation, and encoding workloads while still delivering top-tier per-thread responsiveness. The PassMark suite reinforces it — 40318 on the multithread test against 4236 single-thread, plus 498198 in data compression, 29601 in encryption, 154535 in integer math, and 106716 in floating point math.

Context comes from the nearest rivals. The i7-14700's average benchmark score of 52301 sits essentially tied with the Intel Xeon Gold 5320H (52431, a delta of -0.2 percent), marginally ahead of the AMD EPYC 8124P (52121, 0.3 percent) and the Intel Core Ultra 5 235HX (52073, 0.4 percent), and 0.7 percent ahead of the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X at 51947. Matching a Xeon server chip and edging out a 5950X in aggregate score tells the story: for multi-threaded productivity, this processor competes well above its mainstream desktop billing. Its 91st percentile position against all CPUs confirms it.

FAQ

Q: How powerful is the Core i7-14700 compared to other CPUs?

A: It sits in the 91st percentile of all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 52301 — statistically tied with the Intel Xeon Gold 5320H and slightly ahead of the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and AMD EPYC 8124P.

Q: Is the Arc A380 good for gaming?

A: It is an entry-level card. With a 44th percentile ranking, a PassMark G3D score of 6252, and rivals like the NVIDIA GeForce MX330 and AMD Radeon 880M clustering within roughly 1.4 percent of its average score, it targets lightweight or older titles rather than modern AAA gaming at high settings.

Q: How much VRAM does the Arc A380 have?

A: 6 GB of GDDR6 on a 96-bit bus, delivering 186.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth — modest capacity and throughput that will constrain texture-heavy modern games.

Q: What memory does this build support?

A: The Core i7-14700 supports both DDR4 and DDR5 on a dual-channel bus, and it accepts ECC memory — a useful trait for a small-business workstation.

Q: Are there measured game frame rates for this exact pairing?

A: No. The database contains no measured FPS data for this CPU and GPU combination, so all frame-rate expectations here are estimates derived from the benchmark scores.

Q: Is the Arc A380 still in production?

A: No. It is listed as end-of-life, with a successor generation named Battlemage following the Alchemist-based Arc 3 line.

Q: How much power does this configuration need?

A: The CPU carries a 65 W TDP and the GPU a 75 W TDP; the GPU's suggested PSU rating is 250 W, and the card requires a single 8-pin connector.

GPU Analysis

The Arc A380 is Intel's entry-level Alchemist (Arc 3) discrete card, built on the DG2-128 chip using TSMC's 6 nm process. It packs 7,200 million transistors into a 157 mm² die — a density of 45.9 million transistors per square millimeter. The Xe-HPG architecture gives it 1024 shading units, 64 texture mapping units, 32 render output units, and 8 RT cores. Clock speeds are 2000 MHz base and 2050 MHz boost, with memory running at 1937 MHz (15.5 Gbps effective). Raw throughput figures: 4.198 TFLOPS FP32, 8.397 TFLOPS FP16 at a 2:1 ratio, a pixel rate of 65.60 GPixel/s, and a texture rate of 131.2 GTexel/s. It connects over PCIe 4.0 x8, supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4, and offers one HDMI 2.1 plus three DisplayPort 2.0 outputs in a dual-slot, 222 mm-long card.

For rendering and compute, the scores frame the card's ceiling honestly. The PassMark G3D result of 6252 and average benchmark score of 8558 place it in the 44th percentile of all GPUs. Its nearest rivals — the AMD FirePro W5170M (-0.4 percent), AMD Radeon HD 8870M (1.1 percent), NVIDIA GeForce MX330 (1.2 percent), and AMD Radeon 880M (1.4 percent) — are all comparably modest parts, and notably several are laptop-class chips. The 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 808 indicates very limited headroom in a modern, demanding DirectX 12 workload. Compute results — Geekbench OpenCL at 38224, Vulkan at 36736, and PassMark GPU compute at 2762 — are usable for light GPU-accelerated tasks but far from what a serious rendering workstation demands. The DirectX results (73 for DX9, 37–38 for DX10/11/12) suggest older API paths run relatively better relative to modern ones, consistent with the card's lightweight positioning.

For actual 3D rendering work in Blender or similar engines, this card will render scenes, but slowly. The 8 RT cores exist on paper for hardware ray tracing, but the surrounding resources — 6 GB of VRAM, 186.0 GB/s of bandwidth — make RT-heavy rendering impractical beyond simple scenes.

Balance and Bottleneck

This build is GPU-bottlenecked in essentially every graphically demanding scenario, and the data makes that unambiguous. The CPU operates at the 91st percentile; the GPU at the 44th. That is a gap of nearly half the distribution. In gaming, the Arc A380 will be the limiting component in virtually every title — the i7-14700's Cinebench R23 single-core score of 2080 and Geekbench single-core of 2409 describe a processor with far more frame-feeding capability than the A380's 6252 G3D score can consume. CPU-bound scenarios, where the graphics card waits on the processor, will be rare outside of extremely low resolutions or purely simulation-driven workloads.

Flip the workload, and the picture reverses. In code compilation, video encoding, file compression, and rendering on the CPU, the i7-14700's 28398 Cinebench R23 multi-core score and 40318 PassMark multithread result carry the build, and the A380 contributes almost nothing meaningful. GPU compute tasks that would benefit from acceleration — the A380's PassMark GPU compute score is 2762 — are better moved to the CPU here. The combined percentile of 68 is the arithmetic of that split: a top-tier compute platform anchored by a below-midrange graphics card.

One secondary consideration: the 96-bit memory bus and 6 GB buffer can itself become a bottleneck within the GPU, capping texture quality and resolution independent of raw shader throughput.

Usage Scenarios

High-refresh gaming: Not this build's strength. With the A380 in the 44th percentile and a Steel Nomad score of 808, high-refresh modern gaming at 1440p or 4K is out of reach; estimated frame rates in current AAA titles will be low even at 1080p with reduced settings. Older or esports-class titles are the realistic ceiling.

Streaming: The CPU side is excellent — 28 threads and a 40318 PassMark multithread score handle encoding and scene compositing with headroom. But the GPU cannot render modern games at quality settings while doing so. Streaming lightweight or older titles works; streaming AAA gameplay does not.

Video editing: Strong fit on the processor side. The 498198 PassMark data compression score, 29601 encryption score, and high multi-core results make timeline scrubbing, proxy workflows, and export via CPU encoding comfortable. GPU-accelerated effects will be limited by the A380's 38224 OpenCL score, so CPU-centric editing workflows are the right approach.

3D rendering: Viable through the CPU only. The 28398 Cinebench R23 multi-core result will carry CPU render engines respectably. GPU rendering on the A380 — 4.198 TFLOPS FP32, 6 GB VRAM — is practical only for simple scenes and previews.

Software development: An excellent scenario. A 2409 Geekbench single-core score keeps IDEs and debuggers snappy, while 28 threads and a 17087 Geekbench multi-core score crush parallel builds, container workloads, and test suites. ECC support adds stability insurance for long-running jobs.

Student and office work: More than sufficient, with enormous headroom. Documents, browsing, video calls, and multitasking barely register against this CPU's capabilities, and the UHD Graphics 770 iGPU provides redundancy for display output.

Gaming Performance

To restate clearly: no measured FPS data exists for this exact CPU and GPU combination in the database, so the following is estimated from benchmark scores rather than recorded results.

The estimates are sobering. A PassMark G3D score of 6252, a 44th percentile ranking, and rivals comparable to laptop-class integrated-adjacent parts like the Radeon 880M and GeForce MX330 place the A380 firmly in entry-level territory. At 1080p with ultra settings in modern AAA titles, frame rates are likely to fall well short of smooth play; reducing settings to low or medium will be necessary, and even then demanding recent releases may struggle. The 6 GB VRAM buffer compounds this at higher texture presets.

Older titles and esports-style games built on lighter engines are where the card holds up better — the relative strength in the DirectX 9 PassMark result (73 versus 37–38 for DX10–12) hints that legacy pipelines run proportionally stronger. At 1440p and 4K, the 96-bit bus and 186.0 GB/s bandwidth become hard limits; these resolutions are unrealistic for this GPU in anything but undemanding games. The CPU, meanwhile, will never be the constraint: the i7-14700 could feed a far faster graphics card without breaking a sweat.

Who Should Build It

The target user is someone whose work is CPU-bound and whose graphics needs are incidental. Software developers get the clearest benefit: 28 threads, a 17087 Geekbench multi-core score, and top-decile single-thread performance make this a compilation and virtualization machine. Small-business workstation builders benefit too — ECC support, a 65 W TDP, and PassMark integer and compression scores suited to database work, file processing, and office multitasking. Students in technical fields get a machine that will outlast a degree's worth of compiling, analyzing, and multitasking.

Content creators focused on CPU-rendered video editing and 3D work fit the profile as well, provided they accept that GPU acceleration is minimal. Gamers do not fit — anyone targeting 1080p high-refresh or 1440p modern gaming needs a different card, because the A380's 44th percentile standing cannot deliver it. The sensible framing: buy this for the processor, treat the graphics card as a placeholder with a display-output bonus, and upgrade the GPU later — the PCIe Gen 5 x16 slot and the CPU's 91st percentile performance leave a wide upgrade corridor.

Build Overview

This is a desktop build combining Intel's Core i7-14700 — a Raptor Lake-R, 10 nm, 20-core/28-thread processor released in early January 2024 — with the Intel Arc A380, an end-of-life Alchemist-era entry card originally launched in mid-2022. Both components are Intel silicon, but from very different tiers: the CPU from the top decile of the market, the GPU from below the median. The combined percentile of 68 summarizes the pairing: a high-end computing platform whose overall gaming and graphics standing is pulled down by its weakest link. The platform itself is modern where it counts — Socket 1700, DDR5 or DDR4 flexibility, PCIe Gen 5 — while the graphics card rides a PCIe 4.0 x8 link, itself a small asymmetry in the pairing. The A380's compact 222 mm dual-slot format and single 8-pin connector, with a 250 W suggested PSU, mean the card imposes minimal demands on the rest of the system.

Benchmark Performance

The full picture in numbers. CPU: Cinebench R15 4061 multi / 299 single; R20 14388 / 2031; R23 28398 / 2080; Geekbench 17087 multi / 2409 single; PassMark multithread 40318, single-thread 4236, physics 2226, integer math 154535, floating point 106716, data compression 498198, encryption 29601, extended instructions 28388, prime finding 164, string sorting 54340. Average benchmark score: 52301, 91st percentile, with rivals within a fraction of a percent — Xeon Gold 5320H at -0.2, EPYC 8124P at 0.3, Core Ultra 5 235HX at 0.4, Ryzen 9 5950X at 0.7.

GPU: 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 at 808; Geekbench OpenCL 38224 and Vulkan 36736; PassMark G3D 6252, GPU compute 2762, G2D 610, and DirectX scores of 73 (DX9), 37 (DX10), 38 (DX11), 35 (DX12). Average score 8558, 44th percentile, rivals within 1.4 percent either way.

The combined interpretation: this is a compute-forward desktop whose benchmark profile reads like a workstation with an afterthought graphics card. Every multi-core CPU score sits in territory that rivals server and flagship desktop parts, while every GPU score describes a card suited to display duties, media playback, and light gaming. For buyers whose workloads live on the CPU, the data shows a strong platform. For anyone whose workloads live on the GPU, the data shows the component to replace.

Rate My PC: Intel Core i7-14700 + Intel Arc A380

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