Intel Pentium G4600 vs Intel Core i7-4712MQ

Pentium G4600 vs Core i7-4712MQ comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4712MQ beats the Pentium G4600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G4600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-4712MQ 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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4712MQ. The Core i7-4712MQ outputs less heat than Pentium G4600 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Pentium G4600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4712MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4712MQ has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Pentium G4600.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Pentium G4600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.