Why is this?

[Xtreme Gamer]

Why is it that the 4790k

 

http://www.microcenter.com/product/434176/Core_i7-4790K_40GHz_LGA_1150_Boxed_Processor

 

Than the 4770k

 

http://www.microcenter.com/product/413248/Core_i7_4770K_35GHz_Socket_LGA_1150_Boxed_Processor

 

?

[tek inpektor]

It's newer.

[dragoon20005]

the 4790K is the newer Haswell Refresh CPU

[ionbasa]

Let's not forget that the 4790K also runs at 4.0GHz stock.

[Xtreme Gamer]

Let's not forget that the 4790K also runs at 4.0GHz stock.

 

So which would you say is more important for gaming, animation, recording, and editing/rendering? more instructions or higher stock clock?

[ionbasa]

So which would you say is more important for gaming, animation, recording, and editing/rendering? more instructions or higher stock clock?

I'm not sure what you mean by "more instruction". Both chips have the exact same instruction set.

EDIT: See: http://ark.intel.com/compare/75123,80807 for a comparison between the two chips.

[Xtreme Gamer]

I'm not sure what you mean by "more instruction". Both chips have the exact same instruction set.

 

If you look at both links provided and look under spec, you can see a difference in the amount of instructions listed.

[ionbasa]

If you look at both links provided and look under spec, you can see a difference in the amount of instructions listed.

There is no difference in instruction sets, look at:

http://ark.intel.com/products/75123/Intel-Core-i7-4770K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz

http://ark.intel.com/products/80807/Intel-Core-i7-4790K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_40-GHz

 

The 4790 actually added Vt-X, other than that the chips are identical other than clock speed. Microcenter just hasn't updated their posting to fully include all specifications.