Intel Core i7 4790K Devil's Canyon Monitoring Tests A Processor comparison by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com benchmarking the Intel Core i7 4790K on Ubuntu 14.04 Linux. Intel Core i3 4130: Processor: Intel Core i3-4130 @ 3.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: Intel Device 041e (1150MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.15.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.911, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0-devel (git-8873120 trusty-oibaf-ppa), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Intel Core i5 4670: Processor: Intel Core i5-4670 @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1200MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.15.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.911, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0-devel (git-8873120 trusty-oibaf-ppa), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Intel Core i7 4770K: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1250MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.15.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.911, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0-devel (git-8873120 trusty-oibaf-ppa), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Intel Core i7 4790K: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1250MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.15.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.911, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0-devel (git-8873120 trusty-oibaf-ppa), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.50GHz: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-D3H-CF, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2CW12 + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AACS-0 + 160GB Western Digital WD1600AAJS-0, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1250MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: BenQ BL2410, Network: Intel Connection I217-V + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 3.17.6-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.3, Display Driver: intel 2.99.916, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 + Clang 3.5.0 + LLVM 3.5.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3600x1260 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i3 4130 .. 27.47 |=========================================== Intel Core i5 4670 .. 31.12 |================================================= Intel Core i7 4770K . 31.93 |================================================== Intel Core i7 4790K . 31.82 |================================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better Intel Core i3 4130 .. 0.58 |================================================ Intel Core i5 4670 .. 0.62 |=================================================== Intel Core i7 4770K . 0.58 |================================================ Intel Core i7 4790K . 0.48 |======================================= Tesseract 2014-05-12 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better Intel Core i3 4130 .. MIN: 29.8 AVG: 29.8 MAX: 29.8 Intel Core i5 4670 .. MIN: 29.8 AVG: 29.8 MAX: 29.8 Intel Core i7 4770K . MIN: 29.8 AVG: 29.8 MAX: 29.8 Intel Core i7 4790K . MIN: 29.8 AVG: 29.8 MAX: 29.8 Tesseract 2014-05-12 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i3 4130 .. MIN: 26.9 AVG: 47.0 MAX: 51.1 Intel Core i5 4670 .. MIN: 27.0 AVG: 50.0 MAX: 55.7 Intel Core i7 4770K . MIN: 28.0 AVG: 55.3 MAX: 75.0 Intel Core i7 4790K . MIN: 28.9 AVG: 66.1 MAX: 79.6 x264 2014-01-09 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i3 4130 ............ 89.87 |=============== Intel Core i5 4670 ............ 140.85 |======================== Intel Core i7 4770K ........... 193.35 |================================= Intel Core i7 4790K ........... 214.43 |==================================== Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.50GHz . 231.61 |======================================= x264 2014-01-09 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second Per Watt > Higher Is Better Intel Core i3 4130 .. 1.95 |=============================== Intel Core i5 4670 .. 2.96 |=============================================== Intel Core i7 4770K . 3.05 |================================================= Intel Core i7 4790K . 3.19 |=================================================== x264 2014-01-09 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better Intel Core i3 4130 .. MIN: 29.8 AVG: 29.8 MAX: 29.8 Intel Core i5 4670 .. MIN: 29.8 AVG: 29.8 MAX: 29.8 Intel Core i7 4770K . MIN: 29.8 AVG: 29.8 MAX: 29.8 Intel Core i7 4790K . MIN: 29.8 AVG: 29.8 MAX: 29.8 x264 2014-01-09 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i3 4130 .. MIN: 27 AVG: 46 MAX: 59 Intel Core i5 4670 .. MIN: 27 AVG: 48 MAX: 74 Intel Core i7 4770K . MIN: 29 AVG: 63 MAX: 117 Intel Core i7 4790K . MIN: 29 AVG: 67 MAX: 214 Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i3 4130 ............ 159.76 |======================================= Intel Core i5 4670 ............ 93.33 |======================= Intel Core i7 4770K ........... 71.50 |================= Intel Core i7 4790K ........... 68.95 |================= Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.50GHz . 61.34 |=============== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Performance Per Watt > Higher Is Better Intel Core i3 4130 .. 0.35 |======== Intel Core i5 4670 .. 0.81 |================== Intel Core i7 4770K . 1.58 |==================================== Intel Core i7 4790K . 2.26 |=================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better Intel Core i3 4130 .. MIN: 29.8 AVG: 29.8 MAX: 29.8 Intel Core i5 4670 .. MIN: 29.8 AVG: 29.8 MAX: 29.8 Intel Core i7 4770K . MIN: 29.8 AVG: 29.8 MAX: 29.8 Intel Core i7 4790K . MIN: 29.8 AVG: 29.8 MAX: 29.8 Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better Intel Core i3 4130 .. MIN: 28 AVG: 55 MAX: 58 Intel Core i5 4670 .. MIN: 29 AVG: 76 MAX: 81 Intel Core i7 4770K . MIN: 30 AVG: 113 MAX: 131 Intel Core i7 4790K . MIN: 29 AVG: 155 MAX: 216 CPU Temperature Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Celsius Intel Core i3 4130 .. MIN: 29.8 AVG: 29.8 MAX: 29.8 Intel Core i5 4670 .. MIN: 29.8 AVG: 29.8 MAX: 29.8 Intel Core i7 4770K . MIN: 29.8 AVG: 29.8 MAX: 29.8 Intel Core i7 4790K . MIN: 29.8 AVG: 29.8 MAX: 29.8 System Power Consumption Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Watts Intel Core i3 4130 .. MIN: 27 AVG: 50 MAX: 59 Intel Core i5 4670 .. MIN: 27 AVG: 58 MAX: 81 Intel Core i7 4770K . MIN: 28 AVG: 71 MAX: 131 Intel Core i7 4790K . MIN: 28 AVG: 86 MAX: 216