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Intel Core i7-4790 vs Apple M5

Last updated: 2026-06-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 28 %

Intel Core i7-4790

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M5

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 25 %

Intel Core i7-4790

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M5

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

51 pts

9C / 9T · 4.61 GHz

198 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

1,217

9C / 9T · 4.61 GHz

4,133

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

4,081

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

16,472

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 4600

384

Apple M5 (10 Core)

5,133

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790	Apple M5
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 4000 (64)	Apple M5 (6)
Architecture	Haswell S	M5
Technology	22 nm	3 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1150
Predecessor		Apple M4
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790	Apple M5
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 8	9 / 9
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x 3.60 - 4.00 GHz	3x P-Core 0.91 - 4.61 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		6x E-Core 0.90 - 3.05 GHz
L2-Cache		28.00 MB
L3-Cache	8.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790	Apple M5
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 4600	Apple M5 (10 Core)
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.20 GHz	0.34 - 1.90 GHz
CUs / Shader	20 / 160	160 / 1280
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	24 GB
Technology	22 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q2/2013	Q4/2025

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790	Apple M5
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 60 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790	Apple M5
Memory	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-9600 (153.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790	Apple M5
TDP	84 W	17 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		15 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790	Apple M5
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME
Release date	Q2/2014	Q4/2025
Release price	280 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-4790 is 4.4 stars (148 ratings), while Apple M5 has received 4.7 stars (391 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-4790
4C / 8T · 3.60 - 4.00 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M5
9C / 9T · 0.91 - 4.61 GHz

★★★★★