Almost as quick as the Intel Core i5-2500K
With the launch of Kaby Lake Intel has brought change to their Pentium lineup which includes Hyperthreading. This means there are now Pentium CPUs with two cores and four threads available for as little as 75 Euro. Thanks to Hyperthreading, the performance level of the new Intel Pentium CPUs is much closer to Intel’s Core i3 chips.
According to a review from our friends over at ComputerBase, the new Intel Pentium G4560 is pretty decent CPU even if you compare it to older Core i5 and AMD FX CPUs. The test setup includes several CPUs including the new Core i5-7600K and they’ve performed two different sets of benchmarks, one set deals with raw CPU performance and the other is gaming oriented.
Overall the first batch of benchmarks shows that the Pentium G4560 is faster than a AMD FX-6300 CPU and very close to the glorious i5-2500K Sandy Bridge CPU. Since the G4560 comes with only two cores and four threads it’s not capable of keeping up with the two before mentioned chips when it comes to multi-threaded applications. For example in Cinebench R15 or 7-Zip, the Pentium G4560 is overall 20% slower than the old Intel Core i5-2500K. In other benchmarks where single-threaded performance is more important, the new Pentium Kaby Lake is little bit faster due to the better IPC performance.
In a second batch of tests, they ran 3D tests in combination with high-end graphics cards at FullHD resolution. The first set of benchmarks has been conducted with a single Nvidia GTX 980 Ti and a second set was run with a single AMD Radeon Fury X. The tests confirm what we’ve already seen with other processors, the Pentium G4560 is capable to provide good 3D gaming performance without any issue. The benchmarks shows that this cheap CPU is almost as capable in games as the more expensive Core i5-7600K. As we’ve explained many times in the past in the case of gaming performance it’s almost always the GPU and not the CPU which is the bottleneck in your system and therefore it’s to be expected that most chips perform equally.
On top of that Computerbase also tested the Pentium G4560 with two GTX 980 Ti in SLI with UHD resolution. In The Witcher 3 the performance levels are very close to what you can get with an Intel Core i5-6500 or a Core i5-7600K. Overall the new Pentium G4560 is definitely a good budget CPU for PC builders offering reasonable performance at an ultra low price.
Source: ComputerBase
According to a review from our friends over at ComputerBase, the new Intel Pentium G4560 is pretty decent CPU even if you compare it to older Core i5 and AMD FX CPUs. The test setup includes several CPUs including the new Core i5-7600K and they’ve performed two different sets of benchmarks, one set deals with raw CPU performance and the other is gaming oriented.
Overall the first batch of benchmarks shows that the Pentium G4560 is faster than a AMD FX-6300 CPU and very close to the glorious i5-2500K Sandy Bridge CPU. Since the G4560 comes with only two cores and four threads it’s not capable of keeping up with the two before mentioned chips when it comes to multi-threaded applications. For example in Cinebench R15 or 7-Zip, the Pentium G4560 is overall 20% slower than the old Intel Core i5-2500K. In other benchmarks where single-threaded performance is more important, the new Pentium Kaby Lake is little bit faster due to the better IPC performance.
In a second batch of tests, they ran 3D tests in combination with high-end graphics cards at FullHD resolution. The first set of benchmarks has been conducted with a single Nvidia GTX 980 Ti and a second set was run with a single AMD Radeon Fury X. The tests confirm what we’ve already seen with other processors, the Pentium G4560 is capable to provide good 3D gaming performance without any issue. The benchmarks shows that this cheap CPU is almost as capable in games as the more expensive Core i5-7600K. As we’ve explained many times in the past in the case of gaming performance it’s almost always the GPU and not the CPU which is the bottleneck in your system and therefore it’s to be expected that most chips perform equally.
On top of that Computerbase also tested the Pentium G4560 with two GTX 980 Ti in SLI with UHD resolution. In The Witcher 3 the performance levels are very close to what you can get with an Intel Core i5-6500 or a Core i5-7600K. Overall the new Pentium G4560 is definitely a good budget CPU for PC builders offering reasonable performance at an ultra low price.
Source: ComputerBase
News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini
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