Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Core i5-1135G7

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 98.75
$ 710.24 significantly less expensive
$ 808.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2865 points
2976 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4473 points
5093 points
13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2388 points
0.72% slightly better multitasking score
2371 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2298 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score
2270 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2441 points
2891 points
18% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

63.87 points
19% slightly higher Blender score
53.33 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3751 points
4557 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1174 points
1587 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3891 points
4495 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1241 points
1592 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.60 GHz
50% significantly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.2 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W
15 W
459% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
540th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
2020 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-4790 vs Core i5-1135G7 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1135G7 is faster than the Core i7-4790. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4790 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1135G7. Despite this, the Core i5-1135G7 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1135G7 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.

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 i7-4790 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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