Intel Core i7-4790 vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 98.75
$ 96.55 significantly less expensive
$ 195.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2865 points
8673 points
202% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4473 points
12393 points
177% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2388 points
7498 points
213% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2298 points
7245 points
215% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2441 points
7587 points
210% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

63.87 points
233.29 points
265% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3891 points
14957 points
284% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1241 points
3338 points
168% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.60 GHz
3.9 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5.4 GHz
35% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W
65 W
29% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
6 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
32 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

560th of 1,090
119th of 1,090

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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