Intel Pentium G3460 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400

Pentium G3460 vs Core 2 Quad Q9400 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G3460 beats the Core 2 Quad Q9400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q9400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q9400 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 2 Quad Q9400. A Pentium G3460 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q9400 CPU because of its 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. For instance, the Pentium G3460 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.