Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Core i7-1260U

Core i7-4790 vs Core i7-1260U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1260U beats the Core i7-4790 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4790 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-1260U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-4790 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1260U. Despite this, the Core i7-1260U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260U 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. In terms of cache, the Core i7-1260U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4790. The Core i7-1260U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.