Intel Core i7-11700K vs Intel Core i7-4790

Core i7-11700K vs Core i7-4790 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-11700K performs better than the Core i7-4790. 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 i7-11700K has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-4790 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700K. Despite this, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4790 outputs less heat than Core i7-11700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-11700K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4790. The Core i7-11700K also has significantly 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 i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.