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Intel Core i7-4790

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User ratings:
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4.6 / 5
Editorial reviews:
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Pros

  • great power comes great chicks and money
  • they deliver quality combined with a great design
  • easily connects

Cons

  • this refresh will seem almost pointless
  • K-series CPU and run it at default speeds
  • extra capacitors on the left-hand chip

Key specs

  • LGA 1150
  • 3.6 GHz
  • 4
  • 8
  • 65 W
  • 22 nm
  • 8 MB
  • Smart Cache

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Intel Core i7-4790 - Pros & Cons

Intel Core i7-4790

Pros

  • great power comes great chicks and money
  • they deliver quality combined with a great design
  • easily connects
  • looks stylish and sounds great
  • fantastic and sounds really nice
  • great out of the box performance and overclocking is extremely easy
  • in-depth reviews and helpful tips

Cons

  • this refresh will seem almost pointless
  • K-series CPU and run it at default speeds
  • extra capacitors on the left-hand chip
  • overclocking performance
  • refreshes tend not to grab a whole lot of attention
  • CPU
  • chipset and motherboard
  • more expensive processors as well
  • shaves almost 30 seconds off our Hyper Pi time
  • Intel is somehow underperforming
  • the chips ran markedly hotter than previous generations

Intel Core i7-4790 - Technical Overview

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IconProcessor lithography
22 nm
Best:
HP AMD EPYC 7702
Processor lithography: 7 nm
IconNumber of cores
4
Best:
IconClock speed
3.6 GHz
Best:
AMD FX 9590
Clock speed: 4.7 GHz
IconMax turbo speed
4 GHz
Best:
Cisco Intel Xeon E5-2609
Max turbo speed: 24 GHz

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Intel Core i7-4790 - Full Specifications

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General
Processor socketLGA 1150
Component forPC
Operating modes
  • 32-bit
  • 64-bit
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Integrated graphics
On-board graphics adapteryes
TypeIntel HD Graphics 4600
On-board graphics adapter base frequency350.0 MHz
On-board graphics adapter DirectX version11.1
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Thermals
Thermal specification162.9 °F
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Power
VID voltage range0.65 - 1.3
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Processor
Clock speed3.6 GHz
Max turbo speed4.0 GHz
Number of cores4
Number of threads8
Thermal Design Power (TDP)65.0 W
Processor lithography0.0 in
Bus typeDMI
Idle statesyes
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Memory
Cache8 MB
Cache typeSmart Cache
Memory clock speeds supported by processor
  • 1333
  • 1600
Maximum internal memory supported by processor32.0 GB
Memory types supported by processorDDR3 SDRAM
Memory bandwidth supported by processor (max)25.6 GB/s
Memory channelsDual
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Features
Thermal monitoring technologiesyes
Maximum number of PCI Express lanes16
Supported instruction sets
  • AVX 2.0
  • SSE4.1
  • SSE4.2
Execute disable bityes
Scalability1S

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Intel Core i7-4790 Intel - Editorial Reviews (8)

4.4
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Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Fourth Generation Core i7 4790K Review
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Overclockers Club
Published: 19.06.2014
Intel Fourth Generation Core i7 4790K Review
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790 review
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Black Hole Tec
Published: 23.06.2014
Intel Core i7-4790 review
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790K 'Devil's Canyon' (22nm Haswell)
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HEXUS
Published: 03.06.2014
Intel Core i7-4790K 'Devil's Canyon' (22nm Haswell)

The first Intel processor running at 4GHz on all cores, find out how good it is.

Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7 4790K (Devil's Canyon) CPU Review
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TweakTown
Published: 20.06.2014
Intel Core i7 4790K (Devil's Canyon) CPU Review
4.8

Codename Devil's Canyon is out from Intel. We see just what the new Core i7 4790K processor is all about as we put it through our CPU testing regiment.

Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790K Review
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PCMAG
Published: 31.07.2014
Intel Core i7-4790K Review
4.0

Intel's Core i7-4790K is the high-end Haswell-based processor for enthusiasts who liked last year's 4770K CPU, but weren't satisfied with its modest performance improvements.

Intel Core i7-4790 The Intel Haswell Refresh Review: Core i7-4790, i5-4690 and i3-4360 Tested
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anandtech.com
Published: 11.05.2014
The Intel Haswell Refresh Review: Core i7-4790, i5-4690 and i3-4360 Tested
Intel Core i7-4790 Core i7 4790 processor review
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Guru3D.com
Published: 05.11.2014
Core i7 4790 processor review

We review the Intel Core i7 4790 processor, the Haswell refresh processors are finally here. Join us as we look at the performance of this processor in a wide scope of benchmarks, will it be noticeably faster then say t... Article

Intel Core i7-4790 Core i7-4790K Review: Devil's Canyon Tantalizes Enthusiasts
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tomshardware.co.uk
Published: 10.06.2014
Core i7-4790K Review: Devil's Canyon Tantalizes Enthusiasts

Despite a clear performance advantage, Intel just doesn't seem like an enthusiast-friendly company. Certain elements in the organization want to change that perception, though. Devil's Canyon is meant to allay power users with more speed.

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