CPU Single Thread Performance Low?

[AvXpert787]

I have an Intel Core i7 4770 CPU and my friend has a 4790 or a 4970. We both did a benchmark test and I got a significantly lower performance than him. Using CPU-z, I got a 332 on the single thread performance and a 4920 for multi-thread performance. What does it mean by having a low performance on the single thread?

[ybriK]

A 4770 is slower than a 4790.

 

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-4790-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4770/2293vs1978

[DarkEnergy]

Games are usually single threaded. So worse performance in games. That's comparing the single core performance between the 4770 to the 4790

[ybriK]

Also those scores are quite low. You should be hitting 1300+ for single thread and 6000+ for multi-thread easy.

[Skiiwee29]

Close all your applications in the background. That has a huge impact on tests like this. When I have stuff running and do Cinebench, I would get around significantly lower scores than if I literally shut everything down. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

27 minutes ago, AvXpert787 said:

I have an Intel Core i7 4770 CPU and my friend has a 4790 or a 4970. We both did a benchmark test and I got a significantly lower performance than him. Using CPU-z, I got a 332 on the single thread performance and a 4920 for multi-thread performance. What does it mean by having a low performance on the single thread?

I'm not privy to their test, but I would guess all this really means is they run the same exact test, just one run they use one core and another they use all cores. So having a score that far apart for the basically the same thing being run would seem normal. However I'm curious as to what "significantly lower" is.