Intel Core i7-3630QM vs Intel Pentium G4600

Core i7-3630QM vs Pentium G4600 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G4600 beats the Core i7-3630QM in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3630QM in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3630QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium G4600 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4600. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G4600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3630QM. A Core i7-3630QM CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G4600 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-3630QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.