Intel Core i7-4790 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 98.75
$ 231.24 significantly less expensive
$ 329.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2865 points
6994 points
144% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4473 points
8202 points
83% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2388 points
6575 points
175% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2298 points
6440 points
180% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2441 points
6750 points
176% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

63.87 points
187.18 points
193% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3891 points
10106 points
159% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1241 points
1922 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.60 GHz
0.70% slightly higher clock speed
3.58 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.1 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W
25% slightly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
4 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
96 MiB
1100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

558th of 1,089
194th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-4790 vs Ryzen 7 5700X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D beats the Core i7-4790 in overall performance. 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 Ryzen 7 5700X3D has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-4790 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4790 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5700X3D CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4790. The Ryzen 7 5700X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

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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