Price vs Performance of Intel LGA 1700 CPUs

A comparison of the price vs performance of Intel LGA 1700 CPUs

I am currently planning a new NAS build and I am looking for a CPU with a LGA1700 socket. In order to determine the best price/performance ratio, I scraped the prices and performance scores of all LGA1700 CPUs from idealo.de and cpubenchmark.net and analysed them. Since I have already put in the effort to collect the data, I thought I might as well share the data and make a blog post about it. The data was collected on 2025-02-23, so it may be outdated by the time you read this. But it should give a idea of the price/performance ratio of the CPUs.

The scores are the multi-threaded performance scores from cpubenchmark.net. The prices are the lowest prices from idealo.de.

Score vs Price

S/E vs Price

S/E = Score per Euro

Top 25 CPUs by S/E

Rank                 Name  Price (€)  Score  S/E
 1  Intel Core i5-12600KF     156.89  27884  177.7
 2   Intel Core i5-12600K     166.50  27661  166.1
 3   Intel Core i5-14600K     233.90  38643  165.2
 4  Intel Core i5-12600KF     170.03  27884  164.0
 5    Intel Core i5-13400     150.80  23429  155.4
 6    Intel Core i5-14400     163.99  25401  154.9
 7   Intel Core i5-13600K     244.11  37796  154.8
 8   Intel Core i5-12600K     179.00  27661  154.5
 9    Intel Core i5-13500     206.58  31673  153.3
10    Intel Core i5-14400     166.30  25401  152.7
11   Intel Core i5-14600K     253.94  38643  152.2
12    Intel Core i5-12400     126.84  19254  151.8
13  Intel Core i7-12700KF     227.36  34244  150.6
14  Intel Core i7-12700KF     235.11  34244  145.7
15   Intel Core i7-12700K     242.96  34551  142.2
16   Intel Core i7-12700K     246.33  34551  140.3
17    Intel Core i5-13500     227.99  31673  138.9
18    Intel Core i5-13400     169.66  23429  138.1
19   Intel Core i7-14700K     386.37  52888  136.9
20   Intel Core i7-14700K     394.24  52888  134.2
21   Intel Core i7-13700K     355.00  46166  130.0
22    Intel Core i3-12100     102.31  13302  130.0
23    Intel Core i3-14100     116.89  15161  129.7
24    Intel Core i5-14500     243.90  31449  128.9
25    Intel Core i5-12400     149.51  19254  128.8

Takeaways

Trends

The peak S/E is around the 150€ to 200€ price point.
The K-series offer a better S/E than the non-K series CPUs.
- This most likely comes at a cost of higher power consumption.
The F-series are slightly cheaper then the non-F series CPUs, giving them a higher S/E at the same total performance.
- This is because the F-series CPUs don’t have an integrated GPU.
Newer generations tend to have a higher S/E ratio.
- But Gen 13 and Gen 14 don’t differ much.

Best CPUs

The Intel Core i5-12600KF has the highest S/E overall.
The Intel Core i5-12600K and Intel Core i5-14600K have the highest S/E among the K-series CPUs.
The Intel Core i5-13400 and Intel Core i5-14400 have the highest S/E among the non-K series CPUs.

Appendix

Intel Core Naming Scheme

Suffixes

K = High performance, unlocked
F = Requires discrete graphics
S = Special edition
T = "Power-optimized lifestyle"

Score vs Price (color = SKU)

Score vs Price (color = generation)

S/E vs Price (color = SKU)

S/E vs Price (color = generation)

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