Intel Core i7-4790K vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Core i7-4790K vs Ryzen 5 5600GT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600GT 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4790K. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4790K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790K. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4790K. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600GT outputs less heat than Core i7-4790K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.