Intel Core i7-975 vs Intel Pentium G4600

Core i7-975 vs Pentium G4600 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-975 is faster than the Pentium G4600. Despite this, the Pentium G4600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-975 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium G4600 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4600. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G4600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-975. The Pentium G4600 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.

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 i7-975 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.