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General information Core i9-9940X Core i7-4790K
Launched Q4 2018 Q2 2014
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA2066 LGA1150
Series Name Intel Core i9 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Skylake-X Haswell Refresh
Clock 3.3 GHz 17.5 % 4 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.5 GHz 0 % 4.4 GHz 2.2 %
Cores 14 0 % 4 71.4 %
Threads 28 0 % 8 71.4 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 88 W 46.7 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 14 × 32 kB Instruction
14 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 14 × 1 MB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 19.25 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-9940X Core i7-4790K
Overall Score 65263 0 % 47790 26.8 %
Future Proof 68 % 0 % 42 % 38.2 %
Benchmark Score 18141 0 % 5216 71.2 %
Single Thread Score 2621.5 0 % 2452.7 6.4 %
Encrypting Data 10594.1 MB/s 0 % 2246.2 MB/s 78.8 %
Compressing Data 457.2 MB/s 0 % 118.6 MB/s 74.1 %
String objects sorting 58746.3 thousand/s 0 % 16442.9 thousand/s 72 %
Prime numbers generation 96.2 millions/s 0 % 34 millions/s 64.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 103750 millions/s 0 % 29482 millions/s 71.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 64837.6 millions/s 0 % 14482.7 millions/s 77.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-9940X, Core i7-4790K.

Average frames per second Core i9-9940X Core i7-4790K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 148.6 FPS 96.6 FPS
High settings 237.7 FPS 154.6 FPS
Medium settings 297.2 FPS 193.2 FPS
Low settings 371.5 FPS 241.6 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 i9-9940X Core i7-4790K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 165.8 FPS 134.9 FPS
High settings 265.2 FPS 215.8 FPS
Medium settings 331.5 FPS 269.7 FPS
Low settings 414.4 FPS 337.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 18.6 %
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