Intel Core i5-2300 vs Intel Pentium G4600

Core i5-2300 vs Pentium G4600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2300 beats the Pentium G4600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G4600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-2300 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium G4600 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G4600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2300. The Pentium G4600 outputs less heat than Core i5-2300 thanks to a 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. For instance, the Core i5-2300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.