Intel Core i5-8250U vs Intel Pentium G4600

Core i5-8250U vs Pentium G4600 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8250U is faster than the Pentium G4600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G4600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-8250U has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium G4600 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4600. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G4600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8250U. A Core i5-8250U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G4600 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-8250U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium G4600. The Core i5-8250U also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.