Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Core i3-1125G4

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i3 4 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

2865 points

1% slightly better overall score

2810 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4473 points

4729 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2388 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

2253 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2298 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

2154 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

63.87 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

45.54 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3751 points

4219 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1174 points

1435 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3891 points

4001 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1241 points

1417 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W

28 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

558th of 1,089

568th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

11th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-4790 vs Core i3-1125G4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4790 beats the Core i3-1125G4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-1125G4 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. The Core i3-1125G4 outputs less heat than Core i7-4790 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-4790 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.