Intel Core i5-9500T vs Intel Core i7-4790

Core i5-9500T vs Core i7-4790 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-9500T beats the Core i7-4790 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4790 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-9500T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-4790 has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-4790 has more threads than the Core i5-9500T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4790 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9500T. Also, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-9500T 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.

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. For instance, the Core i5-9500T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.