Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Core i5-9300H

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i5 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

2867 points

0.07% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4473 points

4582 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2388 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

2361 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

Physics simulation benchmark

2441 points

2627 points

7% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

63.87 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

53.61 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3751 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3678 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1174 points

1247 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3891 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3744 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1241 points

1292 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

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

4.1 GHz

2% 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

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

128 GiB

300% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

558th of 1,089

557th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

9th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-2666

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-4790 vs Core i5-9300H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-9300H 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9300H. Despite this, the Core i5-9300H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-9300H 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.