Intel Core i5-6500 vs Intel Pentium G4560

Core i5-6500 vs Pentium G4560 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-6500 performs better than the Pentium G4560. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G4560 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-6500 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium G4560 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G4560 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6500. The Pentium G4560 outputs less heat than Core i5-6500 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-6500 has significantly more L2 cache than the Pentium G4560. The Core i5-6500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core i5-6500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.