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General information Core i5-8500 Core i7-4790K
Launched Q1 2018 Q2 2014
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1151-2 LGA1150
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Coffee Lake Haswell Refresh
Clock 3 GHz 25 % 4 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.1 GHz 6.8 % 4.4 GHz 0 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 6 25 % 8 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 26.1 % 88 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 9 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No Yes
Integrated GPU Intel UHD Graphics 630 Intel HD Graphics 4600
Performance Core i5-8500 Core i7-4790K
Overall Score 49998 0 % 47907 4.2 %
Future Proof 63 % 0 % 42 % 33.3 %
Benchmark Score 6249 0 % 5267 15.7 %
Single Thread Score 2480.7 0 % 2473.9 0.3 %
Encrypting Data 3007 MB/s 0 % 2236.2 MB/s 25.6 %
Compressing Data 131.8 MB/s 0 % 119.2 MB/s 9.5 %
String objects sorting 16316.2 thousand/s 1.3 % 16532.9 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 36.3 millions/s 0 % 34.3 millions/s 5.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 26984.7 millions/s 7.2 % 29076.9 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 22442.9 millions/s 0 % 14529.6 millions/s 35.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-8500, Core i7-4790K.

Average frames per second Core i5-8500 Core i7-4790K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 102.7 FPS 96.6 FPS
High settings 164.4 FPS 154.6 FPS
Medium settings 205.5 FPS 193.2 FPS
Low settings 256.8 FPS 241.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 6 %

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 i5-8500 Core i7-4790K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 138.4 FPS 134.7 FPS
High settings 221.5 FPS 215.6 FPS
Medium settings 276.8 FPS 269.5 FPS
Low settings 346.0 FPS 336.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 2.6 %
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