Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Core i7-4800MQ

Core i7-4790 vs Core i7-4800MQ specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4790 beats the Core i7-4800MQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4800MQ 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 i7-4800MQ. Also, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4800MQ 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, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-4790 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.