Intel Core i3-6100 vs Intel Pentium G4560

Compare Intel 6th 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 G4560

Price

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$ 70.65

$ 14.35 slightly less expensive

$ 85.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1570 points

0.45% slightly better overall score

1563 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3092 points

6% slightly better gaming score

2914 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1169 points

1189 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1123 points

1142 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.35 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

26.56 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2267 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1455 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1167 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

686 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2359 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1450 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1201 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

712 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

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W

5% slightly lower TDP

54 W

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

64 GiB

Identical

64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB

Identical

128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

Identical

0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

3 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

790th of 1,089

794th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i3

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-6100 vs Pentium G4560 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G4560 beats the Core i3-6100 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-6100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium G4560. A Core i3-6100 CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G4560 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i3-6100 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i3-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.