Intel Core i7-2600K vs Intel Core i7-4790K

Core i7-2600K vs Core i7-4790K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4790K is faster than the Core i7-2600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2600K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4790K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2600K. Also, the Core i7-4790K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4790K outputs less heat than Core i7-2600K thanks to a slightly 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 i7-2600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.