Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Core i7-4790

Core i7-8550U vs Core i7-4790 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4790 is faster than the Core i7-8550U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8550U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8550U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i7-8550U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4790 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

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 i7-8550U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.