Intel Core i7-4790K vs Intel Core i7-8850H

Core i7-4790K vs Core i7-8850H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8850H is faster than the Core i7-4790K. Despite this, the Core i7-4790K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-8850H has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-4790K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8850H. Also, the Core i7-4790K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8850H outputs less heat than Core i7-4790K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-4790K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.