Intel Core i5-9600K vs Intel Core i7-4790

Core i5-9600K vs Core i7-4790 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-9600K is faster than the Core i7-4790. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4790 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-9600K has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-4790 that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-4790 has more threads than the Core i5-9600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-9600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4790. Also, the Core i5-9600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4790 outputs less heat than Core i5-9600K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-9600K has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4790. The Core i5-9600K also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i5-9600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.