Intel Core i5-3470 vs Intel Core i7-4790K

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-4790K

Price

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$ 217.39

$ 65.73 significantly less expensive

$ 283.12

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2020 points

3124 points

54% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3714 points

5019 points

35% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1543 points

2564 points

66% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1482 points

2462 points

66% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2692 points

2813 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.09 points

73.53 points

144% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1862 points

4415 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

620 points

1357 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1843 points

4402 points

138% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

622 points

1403 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

4 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.4 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W

14% slightly lower TDP

88 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

712th of 1,089

520th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3470 vs Core i7-4790K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4790K is faster than the Core i5-3470. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3470 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-4790K has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3470. Also, the Core i7-4790K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-3470 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4790K CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core i5-3470 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.