Intel Core i7-4770K vs Intel Core i9-11900H

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i9 8 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

2925 points
5635 points
92% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4768 points
8064 points
69% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2381 points
4910 points
106% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2286 points
4760 points
108% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2543 points
6050 points
137% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

66.02 points
144.70 points
119% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.50 GHz
40% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.9 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W
45 W
86% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
20
25% slightly 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

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

548th of 1,089
283rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
11th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May
2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-4770K vs Core i9-11900H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-11900H is faster than the Core i7-4770K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4770K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-11900H has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-4770K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4770K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4770K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11900H. Despite this, the Core i9-11900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-11900H outputs less heat than Core i7-4770K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-4770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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