According to DigiWorthy, Intel is limiting the production of their Pentium G4560 in order to increase retail pricing and improve the sales of their more expensive i3 CPUs. 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 58 Euro. Thanks to Hyperthreading, the performance of the new Intel Pentium CPUs pretty close to Intel’s Core i3 chips.


A few months ago, our friends over at ComputerBase wrote an extensive review on Intel’s Pentium G4560. According to them, the Pentium G4560 is a pretty decent CPU even if you compare it to older Core i5 and AMD FX CPUs. While on 2D benchmarks the CPU is not capable of keeping up with the two before mentioned chips, on 3D benchmarks the performance very reasonable. The benchmarks revealed that this cheap chip is almost as capable in games as the more expensive Core i5-7600K. Furthermore they also tested the Pentium G4560 with two GTX 980 Ti in SLI with UHD resolution. In The Witcher 3 the performance level was very close to what you can get with an Intel Core i5-6500 or a Core i5-7600K.

In other words, this processor offers decent single-threaded performance. Intel's Core i3 CPUs seem like terrible value for money by comparison, since there is a minimal performance boost in gaming and no difference in terms of overclocking. All the i3 models - except the Core i3 7350K - don’t feature support for overclocking.

Since the Pentium G4560 costs 58 Euro and the i3 7100 costs 108 Euro, it’s easy to see why budget gamers are going for the Pentium chips these days. The only main difference between the Pentium series and the i3 series is the support for the AVX2 instruction set, which comes in handy for editing video and transcoding workloads. Since these instructions are not used in gaming, Kaby Lake Pentium is still the best solution.






Source: DigiWorthy