Intel Core i7-12700K vs Intel Core i7-4790

Core i7-12700K vs Core i7-4790 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700K 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 i7-12700K has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-4790 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700K. Despite this, the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4790 outputs less heat than Core i7-12700K thanks to a 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. Indeed, the Core i7-12700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.