Intel Core i5-12600 vs Intel Pentium G4400

Core i5-12600 vs Pentium G4400 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600 is faster than the Pentium G4400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G4400 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12600 has significantly more cores than the Pentium G4400. Indeed, the Core i5-12600 has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G4400. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4400. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-12600 and Pentium G4400 are identical in this regard. The Pentium G4400 outputs less heat than Core i5-12600 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 i5-12600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.