Intel Core i7-4790K vs Intel Core i5-6600K

Intel Core i7-4790K
Intel Socket 1150DESKTOP
4000 MHz / Cores: 4 / May 2014
Intel Core i7-4790K
Intel Core i5-6600K
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
3500 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jul 2015
Intel Core i5-6600K

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    131%
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    116%
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    141%
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Intel Core i7-4790K

16% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 41% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 31% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i5-6600K

None

Intel Core i7-4790K

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core i7-4790K

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Core i7-4790K

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Core i7-4790K

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

Intel Core i7-4790KIntel Core i5-6600K
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
AVX2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
HTT
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
FMA3
F16C
BMI1
BMI2
Boost 2.0

Architecture

Intel Core i7-4790KIntel Core i5-6600K
ArchitectureIntel_HaswellvsIntel_Skylake
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR3vsDDR4
CodenameHaswellvsSkylake
Release DateMay 2014vsJul 2015

Cores

Intel Core i7-4790KIntel Core i5-6600K
Cores4vs4
Threads8vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsIntel HD 4600vsHD Graphics 530

Cache

Intel Core i7-4790KIntel Core i5-6600K
L1 Cache64 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache256 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache8192 KB (shared)vs6144 KB (shared)

Physical

Intel Core i7-4790KIntel Core i5-6600K
SocketIntel Socket 1150vsIntel Socket 1151
Max Case Temp72°Cvs72°C
PackagevsFC-LGA12C
Die Size177mm²vsunknown
Process22 nmvs14 nm

Performance

Intel Core i7-4790KIntel Core i5-6600K
Cpu Frequency4000 MHzvs3500 MHz
Turbo Clock4400 MHzvs3900 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP88 Wvs95 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    4928 points
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    4485 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    21504 points
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    16100 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Multi Core)

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    15488
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    13321

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (64-bit Single Core)

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    4442
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    4677

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (64-bit Multi Core)

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    17114
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    15019

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Single Core)

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    4016
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    4217

points - higher is better

Rendering: POV-Ray 3.7

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    1807
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    1497

points per second - higher is better

7-zip

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    25285
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    15519

MIPS - higher is better

3D Particle Movement (Single Threaded)

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    145.67
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    124.08

points - higher is better

3D Particle Movement (Multi Threaded)

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    831.12
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    387.48

points - higher is better

3DMark06 CPU

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    9476
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    7413

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Single

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    6520
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    6188

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Multi

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    25082
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    21324

points - higher is better

Cinebench R11.5 CPU Single 64Bit

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    1.95
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    1.88

points - higher is better

Cinebench R11.5 64Bit

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    9.14
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    6.93

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    174
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    166

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    846
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    602

points - higher is better

SuperPI 1M

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    7.7
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    9.5

seconds - lower is better

WinRAR 4.0

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    5534
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    3643

MB/s - higher is better

x264 Pass 1

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    189.14
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    196.3

FPS - higher is better

x264 Pass 2

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    51.57
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    40.1

FPS - higher is better

TrueCrypt AES

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    5
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    3.2

GB/s

TrueCrypt Twofish

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    0.8
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    0.52

GB/s

TrueCrypt Serpent

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    0.44
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    0.31

GB/s

Sunspider 1.0

  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    137
  • Intel Core i5-6600K
    64.4

score - higher is better