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General information Core i7-4790S Core i5-2550K
Launched Q2 2014 Q1 2012
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1150 LGA1155
Series Name Intel Core i7 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Haswell Refresh Sandy Bridge
Clock 3.2 GHz 5.9 % 3.4 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.8 GHz 5 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 8 0 % 4 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 31.6 % 95 W 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 31.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 8 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-4790S Core i5-2550K
Overall Score 46145 0 % 40433 12.4 %
Future Proof 42 % 0 % 28 % 33.3 %
Benchmark Score 4534 0 % 2673 41 %
Single Thread Score 2218.8 0 % 1744.5 21.4 %
Encrypting Data 1957.9 MB/s 0 % 1050.4 MB/s 46.4 %
Compressing Data 102.6 MB/s 0 % 66 MB/s 35.6 %
String objects sorting 14228.3 thousand/s 0 % 8979 thousand/s 36.9 %
Prime numbers generation 31 millions/s 0 % 26.2 millions/s 15.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 25289.6 millions/s 0 % 14700.7 millions/s 41.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 12657.5 millions/s 0 % 7472 millions/s 41 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-4790S, Core i5-2550K.

Average frames per second Core i7-4790S Core i5-2550K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 91.8 FPS 74.8 FPS
High settings 146.8 FPS 119.7 FPS
Medium settings 183.5 FPS 149.6 FPS
Low settings 229.4 FPS 187.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 18.5 %

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 i7-4790S Core i5-2550K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 131.8 FPS 121.7 FPS
High settings 210.8 FPS 194.7 FPS
Medium settings 263.5 FPS 243.3 FPS
Low settings 329.4 FPS 304.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 7.7 %
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