Intel Core i5-8350U vs Intel Core i7-4790

Compare Intel 8th 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 989.00
$ 98.75
$ 890.25 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1943 points
2865 points
47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3266 points
4473 points
36% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1565 points
2388 points
52% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1497 points
2298 points
53% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.73 points
63.87 points
53% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.7 GHz
3.60 GHz
111% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
4 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
459% significantly lower TDP
84 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

12
16
33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
Identical
32 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
Identical
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
8 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

728th of 1,089
558th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-8350U vs Core i7-4790 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4790 is faster than the Core i5-8350U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8350U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8350U. Also, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8350U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4790 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-4790 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i5-8350U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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