Intel Core i7-4790 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 2000 Series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2865 points
5% slightly better overall score
2711 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4473 points
5% slightly better gaming score
4257 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2388 points
6% slightly better multitasking score
2242 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2298 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score
2151 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

63.87 points
52% significantly higher Blender score
41.85 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3751 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2399 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1174 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
944 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3891 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2520 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1241 points
42% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
868 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.60 GHz
80% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W
15 W
459% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

558th of 1,089
586th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
Ryzen PRO 2000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
2019 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-4790 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4790 performs better than the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. Also, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4790. Despite this, the Core i7-4790 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-4790 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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