Intel Core i7-6920HQ vs Intel Pentium G4600

Core i7-6920HQ vs Pentium G4600 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6920HQ is faster than the Pentium G4600. Despite this, the Pentium G4600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-6920HQ has significantly more cores than the Pentium G4600. Indeed, the Core i7-6920HQ has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G4600. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G4600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6920HQ. A Core i7-6920HQ 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.

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 i7-6920HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.