i7-4790K or i7-5930K for gaming?

[DownwardAcension]

Hi, I was wondering which of these two processors would be better for gaming, the i7-4790k or the i7-5930k. I noticed the 4790k has a higher clock speed, but the 5930k has a larger cache and has six cores rather than four. Price difference doesn't matter since I'm going to be participating in the Intel Retail Edge Holiday Deal. So which do you guys think would give me the better performance when it comes to playing video games?

 

[06yfz450ridr]

4790k will do just fine for gaming, the 5930 is much more expensive, motherboards and memory are much more expensive for them(ddr4)

 

[Iankiller99]

Hi, I was wondering which of these two processors would be better for gaming, the i7-4790k or the i7-5930k. I noticed the 4790k has a higher clock speed, but the 5930k has a larger cache and has six cores rather than four. Price difference doesn't matter since I'm going to be participating in the Intel Retail Edge Holiday Deal. So which do you guys think would give me the better performance when it comes to playing video games?

For better performance in games I don't believe there would be any significant difference between the 4790k and the 5930k. They'll both be completely fine gaming, now what else are you going to be doing with this computer if any? Is it just gaming and web browsing? Because gaming performance with either of these wont be any kind of problem or big difference. You'd be better off judging them for other CPU demanding things you'd be using the computer for now or in the future. Like video editing or rendering, those kinds of things.

 

[faalin]

to be truthful an i7 is overkill for gaming, games right now do not use hyperthreading so an i5 4690k will act the same in games as a i7 4790k. Now a days it comes down to the GPU that you use.

 

[fudoka711]

I guess if price doesn't matter, go ahead and get the 5930k since it'll be better in the long run, but for the next couple years, you shouldn't see a difference. Besides, the gpu is usually going to bottleneck you while gaming.