Intel Core i3-7130U vs Intel Pentium G4600

Compare Intel 7th 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

976 points

1693 points

73% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1947 points

3224 points

65% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

724 points

1278 points

76% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

695 points

1227 points

76% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.54 points

20.87 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1667 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1542 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

827 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

729 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1774 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1520 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

18% 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

2.7 GHz

3.6 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

239% 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

957th of 1,089

777th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

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 i3-7130U vs Pentium G4600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G4600 beats the Core i3-7130U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7130U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G4600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-7130U. A Core i3-7130U 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.

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 i3-7130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.