Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Core i7-13700H

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i7 14 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
7252 points
153% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4473 points
9095 points
103% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2388 points
6721 points
181% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2298 points
6634 points
188% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2441 points
7712 points
215% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

63.87 points
188.68 points
195% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
14
250% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
20
150% 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
5 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
28
75% significantly 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
64 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
11.5 MiB
1049% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
24 MiB
200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

558th of 1,089
174th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
13th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR5-5200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-4790 vs Core i7-13700H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-13700H 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-13700H has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4790. Indeed, the Core i7-13700H has 14 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4790. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700H. Despite this, the Core i7-13700H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-13700H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4790. The Core i7-13700H 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.

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