Intel Pentium G4560 vs Intel Xeon E5-1603

Pentium G4560 vs Xeon E5-1603 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1603 beats the Pentium G4560 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G4560 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-1603 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium G4560 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. A Pentium G4560 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 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. Indeed, the Pentium G4560 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.