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Intel Core i7-4790 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8300

Last updated: 2026-07-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 84 %

Intel Core i7-4790

Rank 1 - 100 %

MediaTek Dimensity 8300

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 87 %

Intel Core i7-4790

Rank 1 - 100 %

MediaTek Dimensity 8300

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

1,217

8C / 8T · 3.35 GHz

1,442

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

4,081

8C / 8T · 3.35 GHz

4,679

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	MediaTek Dimensity 8300
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	Mediatek Dimensity (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 4000 (64)	MediaTek Dimensity 8300 (1)
Architecture	Haswell S	Cortex-A715 / -A510
Technology	22 nm	4 nm
Segment	Desktop	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	LGA 1150
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790	MediaTek Dimensity 8300
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 8	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x 3.60 - 4.00 GHz	1x Cortex-A715 3.35 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		3x Cortex-A715 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 3:		4x Cortex-A510 2.20 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	8.00 MB	4.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790	MediaTek Dimensity 8300
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 4600	ARM Mali-G615 MP6
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.20 GHz	1.40 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	20 / 160	6 /
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	1
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB
Technology	22 nm	4 nm
Release date	Q2/2013	Q4/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790	MediaTek Dimensity 8300
AI hardware		Mediatek APU
AI specifications		APU 780
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790	MediaTek Dimensity 8300
Memory	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-8533 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790	MediaTek Dimensity 8300
TDP	84 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790	MediaTek Dimensity 8300
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Android
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv9-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q2/2014	Q4/2023
Release price	280 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	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 (153 ratings), while MediaTek Dimensity 8300 has received 4.6 stars (141 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

MediaTek Dimensity 8300
8C / 8T · 3.35 GHz

★★★★★