Intel Core i7-4790 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

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Price

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$ 98.75
$ 202.81 significantly less expensive
$ 301.56

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2887 points
11183 points
287% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4547 points
13819 points
203% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2396 points
10307 points
330% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2304 points
10060 points
336% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2441 points
9722 points
298% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

63.87 points
302.05 points
372% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3891 points
16965 points
336% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1241 points
3349 points
169% 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
3.8 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5.5 GHz
37% 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
8 MiB
700% 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

576th of 1,125
73rd of 1,125

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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