Intel
Intel Core i7-4770
The locked Haswell i7: four cores, eight threads, 8 MB L3 and HD 4600 at 84 W. It is the drop-in upgrade for an LGA1150 business desktop with an H81/B85/H87 board, where an unlocked K chip would buy you nothing.
Pros
- Eight threads at up to 3.9 GHz — roughly double the multi-threaded throughput of the i5s on this socket
- Works in any 8-series or 9-series board, no Z-chipset required
- Keeps VT-d, unlike the i7-4770K, so it is the better virtualisation host of the two
- AVX2 and FMA3 give it a genuine advantage over Ivy Bridge in encoders and math libraries
- PCIe 3.0 x16 plus HD Graphics 4600 for Quick Sync
Cons
- Locked multiplier — no headroom beyond the stock 3.9 GHz turbo
- Same 3.9 GHz turbo as the far pricier 4770K, and the i7-4790 that replaced it a year later adds only 100 MHz of turbo and 200 MHz of base — a same-socket i7 swap buys almost nothing
- Four cores in 2026 means stutter in modern games regardless of GPU
- DDR3-1600 and a 32 GB ceiling; NVMe boot on 8-series boards usually needs a modded BIOS
Below average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Intel Core i7-4770
General
- Announced
- 2013
- Socket
- LGA1150
- Process
- 22 nm
- Base TDP
- 84 W
- Unlocked multiplier
- No
- Cooler included
- Yes
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 4
- Performance cores
- 4
- Efficiency cores
- 0
- Threads
- 8
- Base clock
- 3.4 GHz
- Boost clock
- 3.9 GHz
- L2 cache
- 1 MB
- L3 cache
- 8 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- Intel HD Graphics 4600
- iGPU clock
- 1,200 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- DDR3-1600
- Max memory
- 32 GB
- Memory channels
- 2
Platform
- PCIe version
- 3
- CPU PCIe lanes
- 16
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 1,180
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 3,900
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 970
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 4,600
- PassMark
- 7,800
Quick answers
Is the Intel Core i7-4770 good in 2026?
The Intel Core i7-4770 earns an Inno Score of 24.5/100 (“Below average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. The locked Haswell i7: four cores, eight threads, 8 MB L3 and HD 4600 at 84 W. It is the drop-in upgrade for an LGA1150 business desktop with an H81/B85/H87 board, where an unlocked K chip would buy you nothing.
What are the key specs of the Intel Core i7-4770?
Cores: 4 · Threads: 8 · Boost clock: 3.9 GHz · Socket: LGA1150
What are the closest alternatives to the Intel Core i7-4770?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Intel Core i5-7500, Intel Core i7-4770K, Intel Core i3-8100 — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.