Intel Core i7-4790S vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255H

Core i7-4790S vs Core Ultra 7 255H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 255H beats the Core i7-4790S in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4790S has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-4790S has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790S. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4790S has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 255H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 255H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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.