Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Pentium G4600

Core i7-8550U vs Pentium G4600 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8550U is faster than the Pentium G4600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G4600 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-8550U has significantly more cores than the Pentium G4600. Indeed, the Core i7-8550U has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G4600. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4600. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G4600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8550U. A Core i7-8550U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G4600 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-8550U has significantly more L2 cache than the Pentium G4600. The Core i7-8550U 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 i7-8550U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.