Intel Core i7-4790K vs AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 4450U

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 4000 Series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3124 points

3179 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5019 points

13% slightly better gaming score

4408 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2564 points

2793 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2462 points

2700 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

73.53 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

66.86 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4402 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3930 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1403 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1293 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

60% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

18% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

88 W

15 W

486% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

520th of 1,089

514th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

Ryzen PRO 4000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-4790K vs Ryzen 3 PRO 4450U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 PRO 4450U beats the Core i7-4790K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4790K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 PRO 4450U. Also, the Core i7-4790K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 3 PRO 4450U 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.