Intel Core i7-2700K vs Intel Core i7-4790S

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2597 points
2743 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3839 points
4529 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2213 points
2219 points
0.27% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2133 points
0.14% slightly better heavy workload score
2130 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.33 points
60.35 points
36% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2222 points
3586 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

627 points
1175 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2293 points
3775 points
64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

672 points
1204 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed
3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
Identical
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

608th of 1,089
580th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November
2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-2700K vs Core i7-4790S benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4790S is faster than the Core i7-2700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2700K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-2700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4790S. Despite this, the Core i7-4790S has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4790S outputs less heat than Core i7-2700K 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 i7-2700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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