Intel Core i7-4790K vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U

Core i7-4790K vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U 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 PRO 5650U has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4790K. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4790K. 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 Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Also, the Core i7-4790K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U 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.