Intel Core i3-6157U vs Intel Pentium G4600

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1038 points

1693 points

63% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1931 points

3224 points

66% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

790 points

1278 points

61% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

758 points

1227 points

61% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

21.59 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

20.87 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1405 points

1542 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

601 points

729 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1663 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1520 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

812 points

10% slightly 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

2.4 GHz

3.6 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

28 W

82% significantly lower TDP

51 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

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

939th of 1,089

777th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i3

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-6157U vs Pentium G4600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G4600 beats the Core i3-6157U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-6157U 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G4600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-6157U. A Core i3-6157U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G4600 CPU because of its significantly 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 i3-6157U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.