AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i7-4790K

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i7-4790K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X beats the Core i7-4790K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4790K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5800X has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-4790K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4790K outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X 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 Ryzen 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.