Intel’s new 14th-generation Core “Raptor Lake Refresh” series has finally hit the shelves, giving Team Blue members another chance to flex against AMD’s Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 series chips. The Raptor Lake Refresh series, as you’d expect, doesn’t bring any radical improvements to the table as the new SKUs mostly represent a minor spec bump. The Intel Core i7-14700K is the only processor to have received the biggest upgrade this time, while the rest have only seen some minor clock speed increases across the board.
 Let’s take a quick look at how Intel’s new Core i7-14700K Raptor Lake CPU stacks up against AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700X CPU in this head-to-head comparison.Â
