Intel Core i7-4790K vs Intel Core 7 150U

Core i7-4790K vs Core 7 150U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 7 150U is faster than the Core i7-4790K. Despite this, the Core i7-4790K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-4790K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i7-4790K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.