Intel Core i5-10600K vs Intel Core i7-4790K

Core i5-10600K vs Core i7-4790K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10600K beats the Core i7-4790K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4790K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-10600K has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4790K. Indeed, the Core i5-10600K has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4790K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-10600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4790K. Also, the Core i5-10600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4790K outputs less heat than Core i5-10600K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-10600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.