Intel Core i7-4770 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255H

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 16 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

2793 points
0.18% slightly better overall score
2788 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4464 points
29% slightly better gaming score
3457 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2300 points
2584 points
12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2209 points
2521 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

60.61 points
212.94 points
251% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3812 points
13475 points
253% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1210 points
2524 points
108% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.40 GHz
70% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
5.1 GHz
30% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
28
75% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
128 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
28 MiB
2700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
24 MiB
200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

571st of 1,089
572nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR5-8400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-4770 vs Core Ultra 7 255H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 7 255H is faster than the Core i7-4770. Despite this, the Core i7-4770 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i7-4770 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4770. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4770 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 255H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 255H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 7 255H has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4770. The Core Ultra 7 255H also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-4770 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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