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. 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 1600X has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4790. The Ryzen 5 1600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.