Intel Pentium G4560 vs AMD Athlon X4 950

Pentium G4560 vs Athlon X4 950 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium G4560 is faster than the Athlon X4 950. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 950 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon X4 950 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium G4560 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. According to our data, the Pentium G4560 and Athlon X4 950 have the same clock speed. A Pentium G4560 CPU outputs less heat than a Athlon X4 950 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Athlon X4 950 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium G4560

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 Pentium G4560 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.