Intel Core i5-2500 vs Intel Pentium G4600

Compare Intel Core 4 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 G4600

Price

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$ 135.87

$ 34.08 slightly less expensive

$ 169.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1975 points

16% slightly better overall score

1693 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3663 points

13% slightly better gaming score

3224 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1502 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

1278 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1441 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

1227 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.26 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

20.87 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1687 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1542 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

571 points

729 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1692 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1520 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

592 points

738 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

51 W

86% significantly lower TDP

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

32 GiB

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

725th of 1,089

777th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-2500 vs Pentium G4600 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2500 is faster than the Pentium G4600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G4600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-2500 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 i5-2500. The Pentium G4600 outputs less heat than Core i5-2500 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 i5-2500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.