Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255H

Core i7-4790 vs Core Ultra 7 255H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4790 beats the Core Ultra 7 255H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 7 255H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more cores with 16 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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 255H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 255H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 7 255H has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4790. The Core Ultra 7 255H 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.