Intel Core i7-920 vs Intel Core i7-4790K

Core i7-920 vs Core i7-4790K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4790K beats the Core i7-920 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-920 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-920. Also, the Core i7-4790K has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4790K outputs less heat than Core i7-920 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-920 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.