Intel Pentium G4600 vs Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3

Compare Intel Pentium G Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3

Price

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$ 169.95

$ 99.00

$ 70.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1693 points

2307 points

36% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3224 points

4249 points

31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1278 points

1762 points

37% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1227 points

1691 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.87 points

45.99 points

120% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1542 points

2832 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

729 points

871 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1520 points

3291 points

116% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

738 points

1157 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W

64% significantly lower TDP

84 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

777th of 1,089

658th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium G Series

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium G4600 vs Xeon E3-1226 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 is faster than the Pentium G4600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G4600 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has significantly more cores than the Pentium G4600. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G4600. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G4600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1226 v3. A Pentium G4600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1226 v3 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 G4600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.