Intel Core i7-4770K vs Intel Core i7-4770S

Core i7-4770K vs Core i7-4770S specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4770K beats the Core i7-4770S in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4770S 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 i7-4770K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4770S. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i7-4770S outputs less heat than Core i7-4770K thanks to a slightly 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 i7-4770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.