Intel Core i5-6500 vs Intel Pentium G4600

Core i5-6500 vs Pentium G4600 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6500 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 i5-6500 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium G4600 has 2 cores. But they both have 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 i5-6500. The Pentium G4600 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 info from our database shows that the Core i5-6500 has more L2 cache than the Pentium G4600. The Core i5-6500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-6500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.