Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Core i7 X 980

Core i7-4790 vs Core i7 X 980 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7 X 980 beats the Core i7-4790 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4790 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7 X 980 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-4790 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7 X 980. The info from our database shows that the Core i7 X 980 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4790

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.