Intel Core i7-975 vs Intel Pentium G4560

Core i7-975 vs Pentium G4560 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-975 performs better than the Pentium G4560. Despite this, the Pentium G4560 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-975 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium G4560 that has 2 cores. 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 i7-975. The Pentium G4560 outputs less heat than Core i7-975 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 i7-975 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.