Intel Core i7-4600M vs Intel Pentium G4520

Core i7-4600M vs Pentium G4520 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4600M beats the Pentium G4520 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G4520 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-4600M has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G4520 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4600M. A Core i7-4600M CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G4520 CPU because of its slightly 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 i7-4600M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.