Intel Core i7-3930K vs Intel Core i7-4790K

Core i7-3930K vs Core i7-4790K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3930K beats the Core i7-4790K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4790K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-3930K has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4790K. Indeed, the Core i7-3930K has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4790K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3930K. Also, the Core i7-4790K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4790K outputs less heat than Core i7-3930K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-3930K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.