Intel Core i7-7700 vs Intel Pentium G4600

Core i7-7700 vs Pentium G4600 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-7700 performs better than the Pentium G4600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G4600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-7700 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium G4600 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4600. In terms of clock speed, the Core i7-7700 and Pentium G4600 are identical in this regard. The Pentium G4600 outputs less heat than Core i7-7700 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-7700 has more L2 cache than the Pentium G4600. The Core i7-7700 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.