AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Core i7-4790

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i7-4790 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600X beats the Core i7-4790 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4790 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4790. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4790. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 1600X. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i7-4790 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600X thanks to a 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 1600X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4790. The Ryzen 5 1600X also has significantly more 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 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.