Intel Core i7-4600U vs Intel Pentium G2030

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium G Series 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

$ 3244.00
$ 59.99
$ 3184.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1087 points
9% slightly better overall score
993 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2192 points
1% slightly better gaming score
2170 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

800 points
13% slightly better multitasking score
707 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

767 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score
679 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.74 points
50% significantly higher Blender score
11.15 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1589 points
106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
769 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

847 points
83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
461 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1627 points
97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
824 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

880 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
483 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

2.1 GHz
3 GHz
42% much higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
266% significantly lower TDP
55 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB
32 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

926th of 1,089
952nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-4600U vs Pentium G2030 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4600U is faster than the Pentium G2030. Despite this, the Pentium G2030 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-4600U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G2030 has a much higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4600U. A Core i7-4600U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G2030 CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-4600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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