Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Core i3-4150

Core i7-4790 vs Core i3-4150 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4790 is faster than the Core i3-4150. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4150 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-4790 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-4150 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-4150. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-4150. The Core i3-4150 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.