Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Core i5-12450HX

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2865 points
5938 points
107% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4473 points
8351 points
86% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2388 points
5219 points
118% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2298 points
5059 points
120% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

63.87 points
131.60 points
106% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

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
4.4 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W
55 W
52% 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

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
7 MiB
599% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
12 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

561st of 1,092
257th of 1,092

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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