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Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Xeon E5450

Last updated: 2026-07-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-4790

Rank 2 - 51 %

Intel Xeon E5450

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-4790

Rank 2 - 40 %

Intel Xeon E5450

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

974 pts

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

458 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

4,564 pts

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

1,781 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

1,217

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

448

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

4,081

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

1,308

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

384 cb

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

185 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

981

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

528

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

1,819 cb

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

721 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

3,732

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

1,728

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

460.0 s

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

524.0 s

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

403

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

271

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.60 GHz

2,062

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

1,019

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

145 cb

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

84 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

728 cb

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

326 cb

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

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	Intel Xeon E5450
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	Intel Xeon E (44)
CPU group	Intel Core i 4000 (64)	Intel Xeon E5400 (1)
Architecture	Haswell S	Harpertown
Technology	22 nm	45 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 1150	LGA 771
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790	Intel Xeon E5450
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 8	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x
Frequency:	3.60 GHz	3.00 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	4.00 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.80 GHz
L2-Cache		12.00 MB
L3-Cache	8.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790	Intel Xeon E5450
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 4600	no iGPU
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	20 / 160	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB
Technology	22 nm
Release date	Q2/2013

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790	Intel Xeon E5450
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790	Intel Xeon E5450
Memory	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	DDR2
Max. Memory	32 GB
Memory channels	2	0
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790	Intel Xeon E5450
TDP	84 W	80 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790	Intel Xeon E5450
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q2/2014	Q4/2007
Release price	280 $	969 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

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Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-4790 is 4.4 stars (153 ratings), while Intel Xeon E5450 has received 4.6 stars (8 ratings).

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

★★★★★

Intel Xeon E5450
4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

★★★★★