Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Core i7-4790S

Core i7-4790 vs Core i7-4790S benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4790 is faster than the Core i7-4790S. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4790S 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 slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4790S. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i7-4790S outputs less heat than Core i7-4790 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.