Core i7-4790

Performance

188.4k points

Description

The Core i7-4790 is a cpu manufactured by Intel that was released on May 2014. This model has 4 Haswell cores with HyperThreading, runs at 3600 MHz as base frequency and has a a thermal design power of 84 W.

"Haswell is known as fourth-generation core too. It uses 22nm Tri-Gate FinFET (non-planar, ""3D"") technology. It includes four arithmetic logic unit (ALU) and three address generation unit (AGU). This generation is able to run Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2) instruction set among BMI1, BMI2, ABM and FMA3. At this time, Intel used new sockets: LGA 1150 for desktops and BGA1364 for the mobile CPUs."

Specs

Official name

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz

CPUID

306c3

Core

Haswell

Architecture

Haswell

Base frecuency

3.6 GHz

Boost frecuency

4 GHz

Socket

LGA 1150

Cores/Threads

4/8

TDP

84 W

Cache L1 (d+i)

32+32 kB

Cache L2

256 kB

Cache L3

8192 kB

Release date

May 2014

Mean monothread perf.

45.86k points

Mean multithread perf.

188.38k points

Non-optimized benchmark

The benchmark in Mode 0 (FPU) measures cpu performance with non-optimized software. It uses the basic µinstructions from the i386 architecture with the i387 floating point unit. This mode is compatible with all CPUs so it's practical to compare very different CPUs

Monothread

Multithread

Test#1 (Integers)

4.51k

15.72k (x3.5)

Test#2 (FP)

11.24k

54.99k (x4.9)

Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)

5.03k

23.87k (x4.7)

Test#1 (Memory)

5.02k

5.48k (x1.1)

TOTAL

25.8k

100.06k (x3.9)

SSE3 optimized benchmark

The benchmark in mode I (SSE) is optimized for the use of SIMD instructions with 128 bits register and the SSE set up to version 3. Nearly every modern CPU has support for this mode.

Monothread

Multithread

Test#1 (Integers)

13.52k

54.7k (x4.0)

Test#2 (FP)

11.94k

52.41k (x4.4)

Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)

4.96k

24.5k (x4.9)

Test#1 (Memory)

4.84k

6.77k (x1.4)

TOTAL

35.25k

138.37k (x3.9)

AVX optimized benchmark

The benchmark in mode II (AVX) is optimized to used 256 bits registers beside the first version of the Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX). The first AVX compatible CPU was released in 2011.

Monothread

Multithread

Test#1 (Integers)

14.03k

57.83k (x4.1)

Test#2 (FP)

12.72k

61.3k (x4.8)

Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)

5.36k

24.38k (x4.6)

Test#1 (Memory)

4.94k

7.23k (x1.5)

TOTAL

37.05k

150.74k (x4.1)

AVX2 optimized benchmark

The benchmark in mode III (AVX2), like AVX1, is optimized to used 256 bits registers beside the second version of the Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX). The first AVX2 compatible CPU was released in 2013.

Monothread

Multithread

Test#1 (Integers)

23.09k

96.05k (x4.2)

Test#2 (FP)

12.36k

61.48k (x5.0)

Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)

5.27k

24.82k (x4.7)

Test#1 (Memory)

5.13k

6.03k (x1.2)

TOTAL

45.86k

188.38k (x4.1)

Motherboards where this CPU was tested

Model

Chipset

Release date

ASRock Z97M Pro4

Intel Z97

N/A

Asus B85-PLUS

Intel B85

N/A

Computers where this CPU was tested

Model

Release date

Dell OptiPlex 7020

N/A

Fujitsu Esprimo P520

N/A

RAM models tested along with this CPU

Model

Type

Frequency

Size

Generic N/A

DDR3

1333 MHz

8 GB

Kingston KVR1333D3N9/4G

DDR3

1600 MHz

4 GB

Kingston KVR133303N9/4G

DDR3

1333 MHz

4 GB

Kingston KVR1333D3N9/4G

DDR3

1333 MHz

4 GB

SK Hynix HMT451U6BFR8A-PB

DDR3

1600 MHz

4 GB

Samsung M378B5773CH0-CH9

DDR3

1333 MHz

2 GB

Monothread performance graph

Monothread performance graphics gives the performance vs time. They are useful to measure the time it takes to the CPU to reach the maximum performance.

Usually, CPU's performance will be steady during these tests but if it has a slow frequency strategy, the first samples will show a lower score.

Test#1 (Integers) [% vs time]

Test#2 (FP) [% vs time]

Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [% vs time]

Test#1 (Memory) [% vs time]

Multithread performance graph

Multithread graphs measure the performance against a heavy load during certain time.

If CPU's TDP doesn't limit the frequency and the machine is properly cooled, performance should remain steady vs time. Otherwise, the performance score will oscillate or decrease over time.

Test#1 (Integers) [% vs time]

Test#2 (FP) [% vs time]

Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [% vs time]

Test#1 (Memory) [% vs time]

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FPU mode comparison

Monothread integers operations

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Score

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4.63k [2.55%]