Intel Core i5 M 560 vs Intel Pentium G860

Compare Intel 2 core CPU vs Intel 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

947 points
2% slightly better overall score
927 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1902 points
1998 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

699 points
4% slightly better multitasking score
666 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

670 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score
639 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.56 points
2% slightly higher Blender score
10.26 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.67 GHz
3 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.25 MiB
Identical
0.25 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

968th of 1,089
973rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Pentium

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2011 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3-1066

Core i5 M 560 vs Pentium G860 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5 M 560 beats the Pentium G860 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G860 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5 M 560 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G860 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5 M 560. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 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 M 560 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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