Intel Core i7-8650U vs Intel Pentium G4600

Core i7-8650U vs Pentium G4600 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8650U beats the Pentium G4600 in overall performance. 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 i7-8650U has significantly more cores than the Pentium G4600. Indeed, the Core i7-8650U has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G4600. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4600. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G4600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8650U. A Core i7-8650U 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. In terms of cache, the Core i7-8650U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium G4600. The Core i7-8650U also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-8650U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.