Intel Core i7-4790K vs Intel Core i5-14400

Core i7-4790K vs Core i5-14400 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-14400 beats the Core i7-4790K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4790K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14400 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-4790K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4790K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14400. Despite this, the Core i5-14400 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.