Intel Core i5-7500 vs Intel Core i7-4790K

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 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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$ 73.80

$ 209.32 significantly less expensive

$ 283.12

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2458 points

3124 points

27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4565 points

5019 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1872 points

2564 points

36% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1797 points

2462 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2294 points

2813 points

22% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.70 points

73.53 points

54% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3409 points

4415 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1243 points

1357 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3533 points

4402 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1283 points

1403 points

9% slightly 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

3.4 GHz

4 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.4 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

35% slightly lower TDP

88 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

637th of 1,089

520th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-7500 vs Core i7-4790K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4790K beats the Core i5-7500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7500 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-4790K has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7500. Also, the Core i7-4790K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7500 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 i5-7500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.