Intel Core i7-8700K vs Intel Core i5-4590

Core i7-8700K vs Core i5-4590 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8700K is faster than the Core i5-4590. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4590 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8700K has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-4590 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4590. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4590. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-4590 outputs less heat than Core i7-8700K 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 i7-8700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.