Intel Pentium G4600 vs Intel Core i7-4900MQ

Pentium G4600 vs Core i7-4900MQ specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium G4600 performs better than the Core i7-4900MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4900MQ in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-4900MQ has significantly more cores than the Pentium G4600. Indeed, the Core i7-4900MQ has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G4600. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4600. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G4600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4900MQ. The Core i7-4900MQ 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. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-4900MQ has more L2 cache than the Pentium G4600. The Core i7-4900MQ also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.