Is the i7-4790 just as good as any modern day i5?

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Look the i7 4790k is even beaten by the 6th gen intel i5 6600k from 2015. How recently far back do we need to go.
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-4790-vs-Intel-Core-i5-6600K/2293vs3503

OP asked if his i7 is as good as any modern i5 and it isn't. If he had asked if it still hold up in gaming then that's a different question.
 
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The 4790 will not beat a modern i5 (non K) in games, it has about 10 percent slower.
The 4790k will just about draws with a i5 7600. The 4790 will not.
The 4790k will lose to any modern (8th, 7th gen) core i5 that is the K version and has that higher clock.

If you have the 4790k you're good, if you have the 4790 you lose by 10-20 percent to modern core i5 in gaming. As a workstation CPU the 4790k does have a multithreading advantage though.

 
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The 4790 will not beat a modern i5 (non K) in games, it has about 10 percent slower.
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Does it need to? If it can maintain a target FPS, which it is entirely capable of unless you're shooting for 120/144 Hz, that's all that most gamers need. The extra threads only help its case.

The 4790k will just about draws with a i5 7600. The 4790 will not.
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Til it's overclocked or the extra threads are thrown into the mix. Granted, a 7600k will overclock more for a higher IPC, BUT lots of games are now taking advantage of >4 threads, which means that the 4790k would still be ahead for smoothness/playability.

TL/DR: there is absolutely no reason to upgrade to a 4-core Sky/Kaby Lake from either a 4790 or 4790k. Coffee Lake chips might be tempting if you're streaming while gaming, are a heavy multitasker, or do lots of video editing or productivity tasks due to the increased core count, which will pull ahead of any of the previous 4-core i5/i7 lineup when something utilizes all that power.

Non-gaming benchmarks are fun and all, but they don't often translate to everyday usability or performance gains worth the cost upgrade.
 
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It does need to beat the modern i5 if the question was "does this chip beat this one". Gaming wasn't even mentioned so I looked at workstation and gaming capabilities combined. If we are talking about higher resolutions that is primarily GPU bound anyways.

Overclocking wasn't mentioned either and it's a completely unhelpful variable. You can overclock a 2500k enough to be able to complete with Ryzen 5 in games. It is only worth noting that the 4790k is overclockable and that's assuming that it's not just a 4790. Most end users do not say their exact part number and letter by word of mouth so I took that into consideration as well.

Without knowing if it's the higher clocked k version and what the CPU is being used for the question can't be answered accurately and all you can do is make extrapolations.
 
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by 13%, also userbenchmark? really? lol
 
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Yes really. A loss is a loss. 13% is a big margin.
 
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