Intel Core i7-4790K vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

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Price

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$ 283.12
$ 285.93 significantly less expensive
$ 569.05

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3141 points
15159 points
382% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5018 points
14568 points
190% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2586 points
15345 points
493% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2483 points
15406 points
520% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2813 points
13700 points
387% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

73.53 points
466.69 points
534% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4402 points
20191 points
358% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1403 points
3294 points
134% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
24
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz
4.4 GHz
10% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5.5 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

88 W
36% slightly lower TDP
120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

529th of 1,107
21st of 1,107

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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