What is comparable to the 4th Gen Intel i7 4770K?

[scannall]

Currently equal to? Depends on your metric. With inflation, the Ryzen 3800X is the same price. Just a lot more capable. Back then the 4770K was an enthusiasts chip. Not HEDT. Though now the 3800X can do quite well at some HEDT as well.

 

[CHADBOGA]

I guess I am asking in terms of the 9th Gen Intel and , maybe, even the AMD line. Of course I've never dealt with AMD for CPU before and that would be a wild first for me. My current system is five, maybe six, years old with a Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD4H motherboard and 16GB of DDR3, GTX 1060 3GB and I don't PC game.

Surprisingly, my wife has an almost identically built system except with an i5 of the same generation and using embedded graphics on the same board, SSD, RAM, case, etc. and I can tell a performance difference.

I know I am using a four core, eight thread CPU and something like the 9700K would be 8/8 but I am not sure that I would notice the difference in performance by building a new system. I don't plan on using m.2, or embedded wireless, and I usually keep the case open as I frequently switch between SSDs to boot into various operating systems.

When I look at comparative websites it seems that the 4770K seems to be holding its own over time--still cannot believe its been 5-6 years.

What O/S are you using?

If you want to stay with Win 7, I'm not sure if the latest CPU's from either side, support Win 7.

 

[coffeemonster]

around that level but the Zen "APUs" are a little slower than regular Ryzen because of the smaller l3 cache, and the 4770K can OC more, so I think the 4770K is superior

I'd point out the 2400G has DDR4, newer platform features, better multi-thread scaling(SMT), not as many security vulnerabilities, is much cheaper, and has a much better iGPU.

again, to answer the OP's title academically, they are comparable.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

All, I use the run of the mill litter of browsers, office software, multimedia, etc., and the occasional PS5/LR stuff. I also play with operating systems. I do my official personal business in Windows 7 Pro 64, but I play outside of the proverbial sandbox in Linux, Hackintosh, etc. by unplugging/plugging in dedicated boot SSDs. I really need to test Office 2007 under WINE in Linux and just give up on Adobe ever making a Linux port of PS/LR.