Intel Core i7-4770K vs Intel Pentium G2020

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 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

$ 153.83
$ 34.99
$ 118.84 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2925 points
213% significantly better overall score
934 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4768 points
134% significantly better gaming score
2034 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2381 points
257% significantly better multitasking score
666 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2286 points
257% significantly better heavy workload score
640 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

66.02 points
613% significantly higher Blender score
9.25 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3979 points
396% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
802 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1227 points
158% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
474 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4080 points
399% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
817 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1280 points
168% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
476 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

3.50 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W
55 W
52% significantly lower TDP

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

548th of 1,089
972nd 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 May
2013 February

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 i7-4770K vs Pentium G2020 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4770K beats the Pentium G2020 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G2020 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-4770K has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium G2020 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G2020. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4770K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium G2020. The Pentium G2020 outputs less heat than Core i7-4770K thanks to a 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 i7-4770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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