Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Core i9-14900K

Core i7-4790 vs Core i9-14900K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900K is faster than the Core i7-4790. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4790 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-14900K has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i7-4790 that has 4 cores. 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 i9-14900K. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-14900K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4790. The Core i9-14900K also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.