Intel Core i3-4160 vs Intel Pentium G4600

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

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Intel Pentium G4600

Price

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$ 98.00

$ 71.95 significantly less expensive

$ 169.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1444 points

1693 points

17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2813 points

3224 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1081 points

1278 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1038 points

1227 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.82 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

20.87 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1850 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1542 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

962 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

729 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2084 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1520 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1076 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

738 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

Identical

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W

51 W

5% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

823rd of 1,089

777th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-4160 vs Pentium G4600 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium G4600 performs better than the Core i3-4160. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4160 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Both the Core i3-4160 and Pentium G4600 have the same clock speed. The Pentium G4600 outputs less heat than Core i3-4160 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i3-4160 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.