Intel Core i7-4790K vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Core i7-4790K vs Core i7 X 990 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4790K beats the Core i7 X 990 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 X 990 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more cores with 6 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 slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7 X 990.

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.