Intel Pentium G4600 vs AMD Athlon X4 950

Pentium G4600 vs Athlon X4 950 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G4600 beats the Athlon X4 950 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 950 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon X4 950 has significantly more cores than the Pentium G4600. Indeed, the Athlon X4 950 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G4600. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G4600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon X4 950. A Pentium G4600 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 G4600

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 G4600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.