Intel Core i7-2670QM vs Intel Pentium G860

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Pentium 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 129.00
$ 70.73
$ 58.27 significantly less expensive

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

1375 points
1998 points
45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

811 points
21% slightly better multitasking score
666 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

772 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score
639 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.96 points
162% significantly higher Blender score
10.26 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1444 points
93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
748 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

466 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
447 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
300% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz
3 GHz
36% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
44% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
Identical
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

969th of 1,089
973rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Pentium

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November
2011 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-2670QM vs Pentium G860 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2670QM is faster than the Pentium G860. Despite this, the Pentium G860 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-2670QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium G860 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G860. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G860 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2670QM. A Core i7-2670QM CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G860 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-2670QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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