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General information Core i9-9900X 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 3.5 GHz 12.5 % 4 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.5 GHz 0 % 4.4 GHz 2.2 %
Cores 10 0 % 4 60 %
Threads 20 0 % 8 60 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 W 0 % 88 W 46.7 %
Lithography 14 nm 36.4 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 10 × 32 kB Instruction
10 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 10 × 1 MB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 19.25 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i9-9900X Core i7-4790K
Overall Score 61274 0 % 47790 22 %
Future Proof 68 % 0 % 42 % 38.2 %
Benchmark Score 14096 0 % 5216 63 %
Single Thread Score 2569.1 0 % 2474.9 3.7 %
Encrypting Data 8009.4 MB/s 0 % 2232.7 MB/s 72.1 %
Compressing Data 317.6 MB/s 0 % 117.8 MB/s 62.9 %
String objects sorting 41439 thousand/s 0 % 16526 thousand/s 60.1 %
Prime numbers generation 85.4 millions/s 0 % 34.3 millions/s 59.8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 72838 millions/s 0 % 29160.6 millions/s 60 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 45219.3 millions/s 0 % 14629 millions/s 67.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i9-9900X, Core i7-4790K.

Average frames per second Core i9-9900X Core i7-4790K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 136.7 FPS 96.6 FPS
High settings 218.7 FPS 154.6 FPS
Medium settings 273.4 FPS 193.2 FPS
Low settings 341.7 FPS 241.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 29.3 %

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 i9-9900X Core i7-4790K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 158.6 FPS 134.8 FPS
High settings 253.7 FPS 215.7 FPS
Medium settings 317.1 FPS 269.6 FPS
Low settings 396.4 FPS 337.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 15 %
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