Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Pentium G4400

Core i7-4790 vs Pentium G4400 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4790 performs better than the Pentium G4400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G4400 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-4790 has significantly more cores than the Pentium G4400. Indeed, the Core i7-4790 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G4400. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4400. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium G4400. The Pentium G4400 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 i7-4790 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium G4400. The Core i7-4790 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.