Is it worth getting a 4790k rather than a 4690k

[NinjaLordBruce]

I am planning on getting a new CPU, I have a GTX 970 GPU would saving a bit longer and getting the i7 but worth it?

 

[MADVIU]

If you're primarily gaming on your machine a i5 will suffice. The i7 is better of course but it depends on what you do most of the time that will make an i7 worth it.

 

[utgotye]

Depends what you intend to do with it.

 

[gilbadon]

If you have not purchased the motherboard or ram get the 6600k. It is the next generation of i5 and has all the new bells and whistles.

 

[2Be_or_Not2Be]

The main differences between the i5-4690k and the i7-4790k is the amount of threads and the base/turbo frequency.

i5-4690k - 4 cores, 4 threads; 3.5GHz base/ 3.9GHz turbo
i7-4790k - 4 cores, 8 threads; 4.0GHz base/ 4.4GHz turbo

Any app that is heavily multi-threaded will benefit greatly from the i7; the converse is also true in that a number of programs are primarily single-threaded (like a number of games) and thus won't benefit that much.

If you don't overclock the CPU, then you will also get a bit of a performance boost from the faster speed of the i7.

So if funds aren't tight & you've got your other bases covered (like having a SSD instead of a HDD), then the $100 increase for the i7 will definitely be worth it over the lifespan of your PC!

 

[DonkeyOatie]

Gaming: Not really. Rendering, video, photo edit. Yes.

 

[utgotye]

The i7 will have a noticeable advantage in those tasks, and any others that are multicore optimized or multithreaded.

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

If you live in the US, you will pay 42% more for the i7, and get a 44% performance boost in multithreaded apps. However, if you instead compare the Xeon 1231 to the i5 4690k, you will be paying 5% more, for a 23% performance boost over an i5 4690k, in multithreaded apps. Clearly the Xeon is the better value, but there will be no overclocking. Which can be worth it, because games run just fine on stock clocks.

I used Passmark, PCPartPicker, and my calculator.

All my numbers are all from stock clocks.

 

[DonkeyOatie]

-1 Not 'multi-threaded apps' 2, 3 or 4, have not great advantage. I think you mean apps with a very large number of threads. How many of these are there? I have been benchmarking G3258, i3 4130 and i5 4690 and their multi-thread (2) performance is very similar. (less than 20% different)

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

I thought Passmark was pretty accurate. I'm sure it has to count single core performance better then. Regarding apps that can use all threads would be editing/rendering, etc. But like I said. All I did was to use Passmarks single and multi core benchmarks...

 

[whoratesit]

Probably not worth it for gaming, provided you are going to overclock. If you are not going to overclock the additional stock 500MHz clock on the 4790K is probably worth paying for.

UserBenchmark: Intel Core i7-4790K vs Core i5-4690K
Effective CPU Speed: 100% vs 90.9%
Intel Core i7-4790K - 3rd / 848
Intel Core i5-4690K - 10th / 848