Intel Core i7-4790K vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition

Core i7-4790K vs Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition performs better than the Core i7-4790K. Despite this, the Core i7-4790K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition 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 Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-4790K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.