Intel Core i7-950 vs Intel Pentium G3460

Core i7-950 vs Pentium G3460 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-950 is faster than the Pentium G3460. Despite this, the Pentium G3460 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-950 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium G3460 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G3460. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G3460 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-950. The Pentium G3460 outputs less heat than Core i7-950 thanks to a significantly 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 i7-950 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.