Intel Core i3-4170 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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$ 41.60

$ 128.35 significantly less expensive

$ 169.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1489 points

1693 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2858 points

3224 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1121 points

1278 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1076 points

1227 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.13 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

20.87 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2036 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1542 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1049 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

729 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2163 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1520 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1119 points

51% 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

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

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

811th 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

2015 February

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 i3-4170 vs Pentium G4600 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium G4600 is faster than the Core i3-4170. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4170 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4170 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium G4600. The Pentium G4600 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-4170 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.