Intel Core i7-860 vs Intel Pentium G4560

Core i7-860 vs Pentium G4560 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G4560 beats the Core i7-860 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-860 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-860 has significantly more cores than the Pentium G4560. Indeed, the Core i7-860 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G4560. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4560. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G4560 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-860. The Pentium G4560 outputs less heat than Core i7-860 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-860 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.