Intel Core i7-4790S vs Intel Core i3-1220P

Core i7-4790S vs Core i3-1220P specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4790S beats the Core i3-1220P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-1220P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-1220P has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-4790S has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790S. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790S has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1220P.

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 i7-4790S has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.