Intel Core i7-4790K Devil's Canyon CPU Review - Page 4 of 6

Intel Core i7-4790K Devil’s Canyon CPU Review

3DMark

firestrike overclock

3DMark pushes your graphics card and CPU to the limits. This is one of the best tests out there for pure CPU gaming performance, and is perfect for the gaming system that we are testing. For this this review we used the Fire Strike test, which is more than capable of showing us how well our computer handles getting thrown in the fire, and the Devil’s Canyon didn’t disappoint. We scored in the top 11% of system’s ever tested, which is a very respectable result.

7Zip

The 7Zip benchmark is well known for being a heavily multi-threaded CPU test, using compression and decompression algorithms to score the CPU that’s being tested. At Stock the i7-4790K averaged about 24549 MIPS, and when we applied our overclock we saw a 10% increase to 26677 MIPS.

PCMark8

PCMark8 is another full system test, but focuses a little more on the CPU and memory portion of the system. We first tested our system at stock and scored a 4172, which is higher than 89% of all systems ever tested. The stock results were very impressive, but when we received the overclocked results, putting us in the top 2% of all systems with a score of 4512, we couldn’t have been more pleased. That’s the kind of performance you want to see.

SiSoft Sandra

With SiSoft Sandra, you’re able to test almost every component of your system. Since we only really care about the CPU results, we ran the processor arithmetic benchmark. The 4790K pulled 145.2 GIPS and 96 GFLOPS at stock, and 161.7 GIPS with 107.2 GFLOPS after applying our overclock. These benchmarks put us in the front of the line when we are talking about Quad-Core Processors.