Intel Core i7-4770K vs Intel Core i7-4790S

Core i7-4770K vs Core i7-4790S comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4770K is faster than the Core i7-4790S. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4790S in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count 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 i7-4790S. Despite this, the Core i7-4790S has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4790S 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.