Intel Core i3-4170 vs Intel Pentium G4520

Core i3-4170 vs Pentium G4520 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4170 beats the Pentium G4520 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G4520 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i3-4170 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4170 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium G4520. The Pentium G4520 outputs less heat than Core i3-4170 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-4170 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.