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Intel Core i7-4790K vs AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX. Specifications, performance, tests

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Released
Q2/2014
Intel Core i7-4790K
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2023-02-28
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AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

What's the best choice Intel Core i7-4790K or AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX? Which processor is faster?

We have prepared a comparison to help you choose the best processor. Compare their specifications and benchmarks.

Intel Core i7-4790K has a base frequency of 4.00 GHz. 4 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 88 W. Released in Q2/2014.

AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX has a base frequency of 2.5 GHz. 16 / 32 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 55 W. Released in 2023-02-28.

Differences

  • Place in the overall ranking

    (based on several benchmarks)

    208 left arrow place
  • Higher clock speed

    Around 60% better clock speed

    4.00 GHz left arrow 2.5 GHz

Positions in all rankings

Common positions Intel Core i7-4790K CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

  • Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
    232 place
  • Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
    233 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
    267 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
    258 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
    251 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
    336 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
    357 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
    435 place
  • iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
    861 place
  • Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
    97 place
  • Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)
    83 place
  • Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)
    197 place
  • Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)
    85 place
  • Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
    182 place
  • Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (iGPU, OpenGL)
    109 place
  • Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
    324 place
  • Place in the overall ranking

    (based on several benchmarks)

    17 left arrow place
  • More number of cores

    12 more cores

    16 left arrow 4
  • Higher turbo clock speed

    Around 23 % higher specified turbo frequency

    5.4 GHz left arrow 4.40 GHz
  • Lower stated TDP / base power

    Power limits alone do not measure performance per watt.

    55 W left arrow 88 W

Positions in all rankings

Common positions AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

  • Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
    19 place
  • Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
    16 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
    18 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
    13 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
    5 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
    6 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
    11 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
    26 place
  • iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
    663 place
  • Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
    9 place
  • Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
    9 place
  • Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
    6 place
  • Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
    8 place

Specifications

Technical data
Intel Core i7-4790K Intel Core i7-4790K
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
CPU family and group

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

  • CPU group
    Intel Core i 4000 left arrow AMD Ryzen 7045
  • Family
    Intel Core i7 left arrow Ryzen
  • Generation
    4 left arrow 6
  • Segment
    Desktop / Server left arrow Mobile
  • Form Factor
    - left arrow Laptops / Desktops
  • Series
    - left arrow Ryzen 7000 Series
CPU Technical specs

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

  • Base Frequency
    4 GHz left arrow 2.5 GHz
  • Core architecture
    normal left arrow normal
  • CPU Cores
    4 left arrow 16
  • CPU Threads
    8 left arrow 32
  • Hyperthreading / SMT
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Overclocking
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
    4.4 GHz left arrow 5.4 GHz
  • Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
    4.2 GHz left arrow -
  • Core Configuration
    - left arrow 16x Zen 4
  • Max. Boost Clock
    - left arrow 5.4 GHz
IGPU

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

  • DirectX Version
    11.1 left arrow 12
  • Execution units
    20 left arrow 2
  • Generation
    7.5 left arrow 9
  • GPU Frequency
    350 MHz left arrow 2200 MHz
  • GPU name
    Intel HD Graphics 4600 left arrow AMD Radeon 610M
  • GPU Turbo
    1250 MHz left arrow 2200 MHz
  • Max. displays
    3 left arrow 3
  • Max. GPU Memory
    2 GB left arrow 8 GB
  • Release date
    Q2/2013 left arrow Q3/2022
  • Shader
    160 left arrow 128
  • Technology
    22 nm left arrow 6 nm
  • Graphics Cores
    - left arrow 2
Hardware codec support

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

  • AV1
    No left arrow Decode
  • H.264 / AVC
    Decode / Encode left arrow Decode / Encode
  • h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
    No left arrow Decode / Encode
  • h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
    No left arrow Decode / Encode
  • JPEG
    Decode left arrow Decode / Encode
  • VC-1
    Decode left arrow Decode
  • VP8
    No left arrow Decode / Encode
  • VP9
    No left arrow Decode / Encode
Memory specs & PCI

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX and Intel Core i7-4790K. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

  • ECC
    No left arrow Yes
  • Max. Memory
    32 GB left arrow 128 GB
  • Memory channels
    2 left arrow 2
  • Memory type
    - left arrow DDR5
  • PCIe lanes
    16 left arrow -
  • PCIe version
    3.0 left arrow -
  • Memory Bandwidth
    - left arrow 83.2 GB/s
  • PCIe
    - left arrow PCIe 5.0
Encryption
  • AES-NI
    Yes left arrow Yes
Thermal Management

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i7-4790K and AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

  • Maximum Operating Temperature
    - left arrow 100 °C
  • TDP (PL1, legacy label)
    88 W left arrow -
  • TDP up
    - left arrow 75 W
  • Configurable TDP
    - left arrow 55-75 W
  • Default TDP
    - left arrow 55 W
  • TDP (PL1 / PBP, legacy combined label)
    - left arrow 55 W
Technologies and extensions

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i7-4790K and AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

  • Architecture
    Devils Canyon S left arrow Dragon Range (Zen 4)
  • Instruction set (ISA)
    x86-64 (64 bit) left arrow x86-64 (64 bit)
  • ISA extensions
    SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 left arrow SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
  • L2-Cache
    - left arrow 16 MB
  • L3-Cache
    8 MB left arrow 64 MB
  • Part Number
    - left arrow 100-000000870
  • Release date
    Q2/2014 left arrow 2023-02-28
  • Socket
    LGA 1150 left arrow FL1
  • Technology
    22 nm left arrow TSMC 5nm FinFET
  • Virtualization
    VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d left arrow AMD-V, SVM
  • Chip design
    - left arrow Chiplet
  • Codename
    - left arrow Dragon Range
  • Documents
    - left arrow Technical data sheet
  • Operating systems
    - left arrow Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux

Benchmarks

Performance tests CPUs
Individual model tests

These results have no shared test of both models with the same version and settings. They are shown separately without a percentage difference.

Intel Core i7-4790K

AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

Individual system tests

Results were obtained on the reported systems. Test versions and settings remain separate; incomplete conditions do not support calculated model performance differences.

Cinebench 2024 / multiple threads

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 1828 points System: Minisforum BD790i
CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W
Graphics: Radeon 610M
RAM: 64 GB
Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Cinebench 2024 / single thread

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 114 points System: Minisforum BD790i
CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W
Graphics: Radeon 610M
RAM: 64 GB
Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 10M / 32 threads / windows

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 20817.46002 H/s RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 10M / 32 threads / windows
System RAM: 32 GB
OS: Windows NT 10.0
Duration: 480.366 s
User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

Cinebench R23 / multiple threads

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 33459 points System: Minisforum BD790i
CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W
Graphics: Radeon 610M
RAM: 64 GB
Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Cinebench R23 / single thread

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 1942 points System: Minisforum BD790i
CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W
Graphics: Radeon 610M
RAM: 64 GB
Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Cinebench R20 / multiple threads

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 13057 points System: Minisforum BD790i
CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W
Graphics: Radeon 610M
RAM: 64 GB
Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Cinebench R20 / single thread

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 760 points System: Minisforum BD790i
CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W
Graphics: Radeon 610M
RAM: 64 GB
Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Cinebench R15 / multiple threads

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 5289 points System: Minisforum BD790i
CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W
Graphics: Radeon 610M
RAM: 64 GB
Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Cinebench R15 / single thread

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 311 points System: Minisforum BD790i
CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W
Graphics: Radeon 610M
RAM: 64 GB
Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Based on the results of several benchmarks, you can more accurately estimate the difference in performance between Intel Core i7-4790K and AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX.

Compare the synthetic test values and choose the best processor!

These are saved results from the earlier catalog. Measurement dates and test configurations were not recorded. Models with no comparable results are omitted.

Recent models: test results with identified primary sources — Cinebench R23 · Cinebench R20 · Cinebench R15 · Cinebench 2026 · RandomX benchmark

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Maxon's Cinebench R23 SC is a cross-platform test suite for macOs and Windows uses one CPU core, with no hypetrading

Higher values are better in this metric.

1069.000000
Intel Core i7-4790K
1955.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Maxon's Cinebench R23 MC is a cross-platform test suite for macOs and Windows using a multi-core and hyperthreading

Higher values are better in this metric.

4936.000000
Intel Core i7-4790K
32788.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R20 SC is a high load CPU test for long tasks on a desktop or notebook PC, uses one CPU core, with no hypetrading

Higher values are better in this metric.

411.000000
Intel Core i7-4790K
758.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
Cinebench R20 MC is a high load CPU test for long tasks on a desktop or notebook PC, using a multi-core and hyperthreading

Higher values are better in this metric.

1982.000000
Intel Core i7-4790K
12914.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
The Cinebench R15 SC stresses the computing modules of a desktop or laptop computer to their limits and accurately determines the key performance parameters of the hardware

Higher values are better in this metric.

169.000000
Intel Core i7-4790K
312.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
The Cinebench R15 MC stresses the computing modules of a desktop or laptop computer to their limits and accurately determines the key performance parameters of the hardware

Higher values are better in this metric.

854.000000
Intel Core i7-4790K
5597.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 SC is a popular cross-platform performance test for desktop or mobile processors that uses system memory intensively

Higher values are better in this metric.

1073.000000
Intel Core i7-4790K
2130.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 MC is a popular cross-platform performance test for desktop or mobile processors that uses system memory intensively

Higher values are better in this metric.

4001.000000
Intel Core i7-4790K
19472.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
The performance of the iGPU - the internal GPU in games

Higher values are better in this metric.

400.000000
Intel Core i7-4790K
443.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
Blender is Open Source Software, creating predefined 3D scenes and measuring the time to execute them

Lower values are better; time in seconds.

407.000000
Intel Core i7-4790K
94.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
PassMark is a test suite that performs complex mathematical calculations to determine CPU performance on file compression, encryption and physics-related tasks

Higher values are better in this metric.

11445.000000
Intel Core i7-4790K
58842.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

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