Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i7-4790K comparison
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900X is faster than the Core i7-4790K. 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 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 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 9 5900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4790K outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900X thanks to a slightly 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 Ryzen 9 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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