Intel Core i7-4790S vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U

Core i7-4790S vs Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4790S is faster than the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-4790S that 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 Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-4790S has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.