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Intel Pentium G4600 vs Intel Core i5-660

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Pentium G4600
Rank 2 - 62 %
Intel Core i5-660
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Pentium G4600
Rank 2 - 64 %
Intel Core i5-660
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

Intel Pentium G4600
2C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
958
Intel Core i5-660
2C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
597
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Pentium G4600
2C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
2,127
Intel Core i5-660
2C / 4T · 3.33 GHz
1,308
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Pentium G4600
Intel HD Graphics 630
422
Intel Core i5-660
Intel HD Graphics (Westmere)
35

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At a glance

Wischen
Intel Pentium G4600Intel Core i5-660
FamilyIntel Pentium (150)Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU groupIntel Pentium G4000 (5)Intel Core i5 600 (6)
ArchitectureKaby Lake SClarkdale
Technology14 nm32 nm
SegmentDesktopDesktop
SocketLGA 1151LGA 1156
Predecessor
SuccessorIntel Pentium Gold G5600

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Intel Pentium G4600Intel Core i5-660
CPU Cores / Threads2 / 42 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 2x 2x
Frequency: 3.60 GHz 3.33 GHz
Turbo (1 Core): 3.60 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):
L2-Cache0.50 MB
L3-Cache3.00 MB4.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Intel Pentium G4600Intel Core i5-660
GPU nameIntel HD Graphics 630Intel HD Graphics (Westmere)
GPU frequency0.35 - 1.10 GHz0.50 - 0.73 GHz
CUs / Shader24 / 19212 / 24
Raytracing
Max. displays32
Max. GPU Memory64 GB2 GB
Technology14 nm32 nm
Release dateQ2/2016Q1/2010

NPU AI performance

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AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Intel Pentium G4600Intel Core i5-660
MemoryDDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
DDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory64 GB16 GB
Memory channels22
ECCYesNo
PCIe3.0 x 162.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth15.8 GB/s8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

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TDP51 W73 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Intel Pentium G4600Intel Core i5-660
Chip designMonolithicMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsWindows 10, LinuxWindows 10, Linux
Instruction setx86-64 (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release dateQ1/2017Q1/2010
Release price71 $193 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Intel Pentium G4600
Intel Pentium G4600
2C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
Intel Core i5-660
Intel Core i5-660
2C / 4T · 3.33 - 3.60 GHz

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