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Intel Core i7-1185G7 vs Intel Core i7-4790K

Intel Core i7-1185G7

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The Intel Core i7-1185G7 is a power-efficient quad-core SoC for laptops and Ultrabooks based on the Tiger Lake-U generation (UP3) that was introduced September 2020. It integrates four Willow Cove processor cores (8 threads thanks to Hyper-Threading). Each core can clock from 1.2 GHz (12 W base clock speed), 3 GHz (28 W base clock speed) to 4.8 GHz (single-core boost). All cores at once can clock at up to 4.3 GHz. At the time of announcement, the i7-1185G7 is the fastest model of the line-up. Since early 2021, the i7-1185G7 supports management features like vPro.

Another novelty is the integrated Iris Xe iGPU based on the completely new Gen 12 architecture. It should offer a significantly higher performance compared to the older Iris Plus G7 (Ice Lake). In the i7-1185G7 it uses 96 EUs and clocks between 400 - 1,350 MHz. The GPU and CPU can together use the 12 MB of L3 cache.

Furthermore, Tiger Lake SoCs add PCIe 4 support (four lanes), AI hardware acceleration, and the partial integration of Thunderbolt 4/USB 4 and Wi-Fi 6 in the chip.

Performance

The average 1185G7 in our database is just as fast as AMD's hexa-core Ryzen 5 4500U, as far as multi-thread benchmark scores are concerned. While the i7 is not the fastest Tiger Lake chip by any stretch of imagination, it's more than usable for your productivity and creative apps, with a bit of gaming possible as well.

Thanks to its decent cooling solution and a long-term CPU power limit of 55 W, the Stealth 15M A11SEK is among the fastest laptops powered by the 1185G7 that we know of. It can be almost twice as fast in CPU-bound workloads as the slowest system featuring the same chip in our database, as of August 2023.

Power consumption

This little Core i7 here has a default TDP of 12 W to 28 W, the expectation being that laptop manufacturers will go for a higher value in exchange for higher performance. Either way, that's a tad too high to allow for passively cooled designs.

The chip is manufactured on Intel's third-gen 10 nm process marketed as SuperFin for average, as of late 2022, energy efficiency.

Intel Core i7-4790K

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The Intel Core i7-4790K is a high end quad-core desktop processor using the Haswell architecture. It was announced in the second quarter of 2014 and was the top model of the 4000 series consumer processors. Compared to the Core i7-4770K, the 4790K offers 500 MHz more base and turbo clock speed and reaches 4.4 GHz. 

ModelIntel Core i7-1185G7Intel Core i7-4790K
CodenameTiger Lake-UP3Haswell
SeriesIntel Tiger LakeIntel Core i7 (Desktop)
Series: Core i7 (Desktop) Haswell
Intel Core i7-1195G7 compare2.9 - 5 GHz4 / 8 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core i7-1185G7 « 3 - 4.8 GHz4 / 8 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core i7-1165G7 compare2.8 - 4.7 GHz4 / 8 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core i5-1155G7 compare2.5 - 4.5 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i5-1145G7 compare2.6 - 4.4 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i5-1135G7 compare2.4 - 4.2 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i3-1125G4 compare2 - 3.7 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i3-1115G4 compare3 - 4.1 GHz2 / 4 cores6 MB L3
Intel Core i7-4790K « 4 - 4.4 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i7-4790 compare3.6 - 4 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i7-4770K compare3.5 - 3.9 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i7-4790S compare3.2 - 4 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i7-4790T compare2.7 - 3.9 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Clock3000 - 4800 MHz4000 - 4400 MHz
L1 Cache320 KB256 KB
L2 Cache5 MB1 MB
L3 Cache12 MB8 MB
Cores / Threads4 / 84 / 8
TDP28 Watt88 Watt
Technology10 nm22 nm
max. Temp.100 °C
SocketBGA1449FCLGA1150
FeaturesDDR4-3200/LPDDR4x-4266 RAM, PCIe 4, 4 GT/s bus, DL Boost, GNA, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, AVX-512, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, VMX, SMX, SMEP, SMAP, EIST, TM1, TM2, HT, Turbo, SST, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, TMEHD Graphics 4600 (Turbo 1350 MHz), DDR3-1600 Memory Controller, HyperThreading, AVX, AVX2, Quick Sync, Virtualization, vPro
iGPUIntel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs (400 - 1350 MHz)Intel HD Graphics 4600 (350 - 1250 MHz)
Architecturex86x86
Announced
Manufacturerark.intel.comark.intel.com
Transistors1400 Million
Die Size177 mm2
$339 U.S.

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - CB R15 + R20 + 7-Zip + X265 + Blender + 3DM11 CPU - i7-1185G7
32.2 pt (54%)
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Performance Rating - CB R15 + R20 + 7-Zip + X265 + Blender + 3DM11 CPU - 4790K
28.8 pt (48%)
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Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Multi Core
min: 3610     avg: 5324     median: 5383.5 (5%)     max: 6383 Points
Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Single Core
min: 1251     avg: 1449     median: 1455.5 (61%)     max: 1532 Points
Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Single Core)
min: 489     avg: 557     median: 558.5 (61%)     max: 593 Points
407 Points (44%)
Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Multi Core)
min: 1425     avg: 2039     median: 2090 (5%)     max: 2493 Points
2043 Points (5%)
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64 Bit
min: 617     avg: 859     median: 866 (5%)     max: 1066 Points
min: 806     avg: 850     median: 846 (5%)     max: 890 Points
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64 Bit
min: 168     avg: 215.4     median: 217 (60%)     max: 230 Points
min: 168     avg: 172.8     median: 174 (48%)     max: 176 Points
Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Multi 64 Bit
min: 8.99     avg: 9.3     median: 9.3 (12%)     max: 9.67 Points
min: 9.05     avg: 9.2     median: 9.1 (12%)     max: 9.4 Points
Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Single 64 Bit
min: 2.52     avg: 2.5     median: 2.5 (60%)     max: 2.56 Points
min: 1.92     avg: 2     median: 2 (46%)     max: 2.07 Points
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Single (32bit)
min: 8782     avg: 8872     median: 8872 (54%)     max: 8962 Points
min: 6398     avg: 6558     median: 6520 (39%)     max: 6756 Points
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Multi (32bit)
min: 26426     avg: 27025     median: 27024.5 (20%)     max: 27623 Points
min: 24857     avg: 25258     median: 25082 (18%)     max: 25835 Points
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Multi (64bit)
min: 35564     avg: 36392     median: 36391.5 (23%)     max: 37219 Points
min: 31767     avg: 32779     median: 32596 (21%)     max: 33974 Points
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Single (64bit)
min: 10927     avg: 11135     median: 11135 (14%)     max: 11343 Points
min: 8528     avg: 8679     median: 8597 (10%)     max: 8911 Points
wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 1024m *
240.4 s (3%)
min: 174.8     avg: 185.4     median: 185.4 (2%)     max: 196 s
wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 32m *
min: 5.71     avg: 6     median: 5.8 (1%)     max: 6.875 s
min: 5.585     avg: 5.9     median: 5.9 (1%)     max: 6.3 s
WinRAR - WinRAR 4.0
6045 Points (10%)
5534 Points (9%)
7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Multi Thread 4 runs
min: 18812     avg: 23288     median: 23471 (13%)     max: 27693 MIPS
25134 MIPS (14%)
7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Single Thread 4 runs
min: 3678     avg: 5112     median: 5153 (61%)     max: 5507 MIPS
4979 MIPS (59%)
X264 HD Benchmark 4.0 - x264 Pass 2
46.6 fps (16%)
min: 50.7     avg: 51.6     median: 51.6 (17%)     max: 52.4 fps
X264 HD Benchmark 4.0 - x264 Pass 1
198.8 fps (46%)
min: 180     avg: 189.2     median: 189.2 (44%)     max: 198.3 fps
HWBOT x265 Benchmark v2.2 - HWBOT x265 4k Preset
min: 5.02     avg: 6.6     median: 6.6 (12%)     max: 8.13 fps
7.1 fps (12%)
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Serpent
0.5 GB/s (15%)
min: 0.43     avg: 0.4     median: 0.4 (13%)     max: 0.44 GB/s
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Twofish
0.8 GB/s (14%)
min: 0.77     avg: 0.8     median: 0.8 (14%)     max: 0.831 GB/s
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt AES
5.8 GB/s (15%)
5 GB/s (13%)
Blender - Blender 3.3 Classroom CPU *
min: 1099     avg: 1103     median: 1102.5 (14%)     max: 1106 Seconds
Blender - Blender 2.79 BMW27 CPU *
min: 478     avg: 588     median: 578.5 (4%)     max: 745 Seconds
min: 506     avg: 509     median: 508.5 (4%)     max: 511 Seconds
R Benchmark 2.5 - R Benchmark 2.5 *
min: 0.55     avg: 0.6     median: 0.6 (13%)     max: 0.615 sec
3DMark 06 - CPU - 3DMark 06 - CPU
9108 Points (19%)
min: 8442     avg: 9326     median: 9485 (20%)     max: 9615 Points
Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M *
7.1 s (2%)
min: 7     avg: 7.7     median: 7.7 (2%)     max: 8.4 s
Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M *
15.6 s (1%)
min: 18     avg: 18.5     median: 18.5 (1%)     max: 18.9 s
Super Pi Mod 1.5 XS 32M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 32M *
380.4 s (2%)
min: 437     avg: 448.5     median: 448.5 (2%)     max: 460 s
3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. CPU no Physx
29182 Points (22%)
min: 30076     avg: 32048     median: 32372 (25%)     max: 32834 Points
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Physics
min: 5707     avg: 10641     median: 11284 (28%)     max: 12726 Points
min: 9898     avg: 10753     median: 10886 (27%)     max: 11304 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
min: 69716     avg: 71020     median: 71351 (58%)     max: 71993 Points
min: 54775     avg: 57738     median: 57555.5 (47%)     max: 60983 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
min: 69895     avg: 70538     median: 70537.5 (57%)     max: 71180 Points
min: 56383     avg: 58092     median: 58091.5 (47%)     max: 59800 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 67339     avg: 69256     median: 69331.5 (58%)     max: 71022 Points
min: 56530     avg: 61027     median: 61551.5 (51%)     max: 63023 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Physics
min: 5114     avg: 8442     median: 8804 (22%)     max: 10133 Points
min: 8055     avg: 8538     median: 8598.5 (22%)     max: 8838 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Physics
min: 7886     avg: 13151     median: 13684 (24%)     max: 14680 Points
min: 11449     avg: 12153     median: 12201 (22%)     max: 12585 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy CPU
min: 2489     avg: 4447     median: 4495 (19%)     max: 5608 Points
min: 4528     avg: 4788     median: 4838 (20%)     max: 4970 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1398     avg: 1520     median: 1529 (60%)     max: 1626 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 4620     avg: 5460     median: 5550 (10%)     max: 5944 Points
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1217     avg: 1485     median: 1531.5 (7%)     max: 1561 Points
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 4542     avg: 5511     median: 5578.5 (18%)     max: 6349 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 5587     avg: 6340     median: 6437 (64%)     max: 6682 Points
4940 Points (49%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 20763     avg: 22357     median: 22175 (22%)     max: 25403 Points
17483 Points (17%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 4790K +
5104 Points (56%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 4790K +
16612 Points (24%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 4790K +
min: 15390     avg: 15557     median: 15557 (28%)     max: 15724 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 4790K +
min: 4176     avg: 4418     median: 4418 (86%)     max: 4660 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
100%
1 4790K +
9458 Points (76%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
100%
1 4790K +
8861 Points (80%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
100%
1 4790K +
16703 Points (33%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
100%
1 4790K +
14900 Points (30%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
100%
1 4790K +
13779 Points (36%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 618     avg: 649     median: 645 (1%)     max: 695 ms
min: 871     avg: 1138     median: 972 (1%)     max: 1571 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
100%
1 4790K +
min: 72.4     avg: 118.1     median: 137 (2%)     max: 145 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 59942     avg: 62365     median: 61608 (47%)     max: 66300 Points
min: 20765     avg: 32789     median: 37851 (29%)     max: 39752 Points
WebXPRT 4 - WebXPRT 4 Score
min: 189.4     avg: 189.9     median: 189.9 (52%)     max: 190.4 Points
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
min: 230     avg: 251.2     median: 253 (45%)     max: 270 Points
CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
min: 1233     avg: 1343     median: 1325 (50%)     max: 1474 Points
Power Consumption - Prime95 Power Consumption - external Monitor *
min: 26.9     avg: 43.8     median: 44.6 (8%)     max: 59.4 Watt
20%
1 4790K +
min: 223     avg: 224     median: 224 (39%)     max: 225 Watt
Power Consumption - Cinebench R15 Multi Power Consumption - external Monitor *
min: 33.7     avg: 48.1     median: 46.9 (9%)     max: 68.3 Watt
28%
1 4790K +
min: 170     avg: 170.5     median: 170.5 (31%)     max: 171 Watt
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption - external Monitor *
10.6 Watt (7%)
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption 150cd 1min *
4.1 Watt (5%)
Power Consumption - Power Efficiency - Cinebench R15 Multi external Monitor
min: 12.3     avg: 17.3     median: 17.5 (13%)     max: 21.1 Points per Watt

Average Benchmarks Intel Core i7-1185G7 → 100% n=38

Average Benchmarks Intel Core i7-4790K → 92% n=38

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