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General information Core i7-4790K Pentium G4520
Launched Q2 2014 Q4 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1150 FCLGA1151
Series Name Intel Core i7 Intel Pentium
Core Family Name Haswell Refresh Skylake-S
Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 10 %
Cores 4 0 % 2 50 %
Threads 8 0 % 2 75 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 88 W 0 % 51 W 42 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 14 nm 36.4 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
2 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 8 MB
1 × 3 MB
ECC Supported No Yes
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Integrated GPU Intel HD Graphics 4600 Intel HD Graphics 530
Performance Core i7-4790K Pentium G4520
Overall Score 47790 0 % 36372 23.9 %
Future Proof 42 % 16 % 50 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 5216 0 % 1750 66.4 %
Single Thread Score 2452.7 0 % 1993.9 18.7 %
Encrypting Data 2246.2 MB/s 44.4 % 4036.5 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 118.6 MB/s 0 % 38 MB/s 68 %
String objects sorting 16442.9 thousand/s 0 % 4816.8 thousand/s 70.7 %
Prime numbers generation 34 millions/s 0 % 14.9 millions/s 56.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 29482 millions/s 0 % 7628 millions/s 74.1 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 14482.7 millions/s 0 % 6560.6 millions/s 54.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-4790K, Pentium G4520.

Average frames per second Core i7-4790K Pentium G4520
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 96.6 FPS 62.8 FPS
High settings 154.6 FPS 100.4 FPS
Medium settings 193.2 FPS 125.5 FPS
Low settings 241.6 FPS 156.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 35 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V Core i7-4790K Pentium G4520
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 134.9 FPS 114.7 FPS
High settings 215.8 FPS 183.5 FPS
Medium settings 269.7 FPS 229.4 FPS
Low settings 337.2 FPS 286.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 15 %
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