Intel Core i7-4790S vs Intel Pentium G2020

Core i7-4790S vs Pentium G2020 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4790S performs better than the Pentium G2020. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G2020 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-4790S has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium G2020 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G2020. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790S has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium G2020. The Pentium G2020 outputs less heat than Core i7-4790S thanks to a slightly 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 i7-4790S has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.