Intel Core i7-4600U vs Intel Pentium G3220

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
$ 98.55
$ 3145.45 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1087 points
4% slightly better overall score
1042 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2192 points
2272 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

800 points
7% slightly better multitasking score
744 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

767 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
714 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.74 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
16.22 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1589 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
883 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

847 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
499 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1627 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
890 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

880 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
527 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
259% significantly lower TDP
54 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

12
16
33% slightly more pcie lanes

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
936th 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 August

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 G3220 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4600U is faster than the Pentium G3220. Despite this, the Pentium G3220 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. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G3220 has a much higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4600U. A Core i7-4600U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G3220 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 i7-4600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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