Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Core i7-5700HQ

Core i7-4790 vs Core i7-5700HQ specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4790 beats the Core i7-5700HQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5700HQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5700HQ. Also, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-5700HQ 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 data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. 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.