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General information Core i7-4790 Core i7-2700K
Launched Q2 2014 Q4 2011
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1150 LGA1155
Series Name Intel Core i7 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Haswell Refresh Sandy Bridge
Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.5 GHz 2.8 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.9 GHz 2.5 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 8 0 % 8 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 84 W 11.6 % 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 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Integrated GPU Intel HD Graphics 4600 Intel HD Graphics 3000
Performance Core i7-4790 Core i7-2700K
Overall Score 46674 0 % 43961 5.8 %
Future Proof 42 % 0 % 27 % 35.7 %
Benchmark Score 4746 0 % 3735 21.3 %
Single Thread Score 2236.2 0 % 1818.6 18.7 %
Encrypting Data 2008.8 MB/s 0 % 1765.5 MB/s 12.1 %
Compressing Data 107.4 MB/s 0 % 92.9 MB/s 13.6 %
String objects sorting 14932.1 thousand/s 0 % 14022.3 thousand/s 6.1 %
Prime numbers generation 31.7 millions/s 0 % 25.9 millions/s 18.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 26130.8 millions/s 0 % 22044.6 millions/s 15.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 13178.5 millions/s 0 % 8258.3 millions/s 37.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-4790, Core i7-2700K.

Average frames per second Core i7-4790 Core i7-2700K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 92.9 FPS 84.9 FPS
High settings 148.6 FPS 135.8 FPS
Medium settings 185.8 FPS 169.8 FPS
Low settings 232.2 FPS 212.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 8.6 %

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 i7-4790 Core i7-2700K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 132.5 FPS 127.8 FPS
High settings 212.0 FPS 204.4 FPS
Medium settings 265.0 FPS 255.5 FPS
Low settings 331.3 FPS 319.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 3.6 %
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