Intel Core i3-4000M vs Intel Pentium G860

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Pentium G860

Price

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$ 58.11

$ 12.62 slightly less expensive

$ 70.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

915 points

927 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1829 points

1998 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

674 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

666 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

646 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

639 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.93 points

94% significantly higher Blender score

10.26 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1447 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

748 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

720 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

447 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

3 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

37 W

75% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

977th of 1,089

973rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3

Pentium

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 November

2011 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-4000M vs Pentium G860 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium G860 performs better than the Core i3-4000M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4000M in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-4000M has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G860 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-4000M.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-4000M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.