Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Core i7-8850H

Core i7-4790 vs Core i7-8850H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8850H beats the Core i7-4790 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4790 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-8850H has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4790. Indeed, the Core i7-8850H has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4790. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8850H. Despite this, the Core i7-8850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8850H 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 i7-8850H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4790. The Core i7-8850H also has significantly 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.