AMD Ryzen 5 1400 vs Intel Core i7-4790

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 417.00
$ 98.75
$ 318.25 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2653 points
2865 points
7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4214 points
4473 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2184 points
2388 points
9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2097 points
2298 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3397 points
39% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
2441 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.99 points
63.87 points
20% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3185 points
3751 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

955 points
1174 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3133 points
3891 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

962 points
1241 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
3.60 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
4 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
29% slightly lower TDP
84 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

601st of 1,089
558th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 1400 vs Core i7-4790 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4790 performs better than the Ryzen 5 1400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1400 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 slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 1400. Also, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1400 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4790 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1400 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4790. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 5 1400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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