Intel Pentium G4600 Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Pentium G4600 has 2 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 7. gen of the Intel Pentium series. The processor uses a mainboard with the LGA 1151 socket and was released in Q1/2017. The Intel Pentium G4600 scores 958 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 2,127 points.
Intel Pentium G4600

CPU lineage

The segment in which we have classified the Intel Pentium G4600. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Pentium G4600.

Name: Intel Pentium G4600
Family: Intel Pentium (150)
CPU group: Intel Pentium G4000 (5)
Architecture: Kaby Lake S
Segment: Desktop / Server
Generation: 7
Predecessor: --
Successor: Intel Pentium Gold G5600

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Pentium G4600 has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Pentium G4600 is 3.60 GHz. The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads: 2 / 4
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 2x
Hyperthreading / SMT: Yes
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 3.60 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): --
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores): --

Internal Graphics

The Intel Pentium G4600 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Pentium G4600 uses the Intel HD Graphics 630, which has 192 texture shaders and 24 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name: Intel HD Graphics 630
GPU frequency: 0.35 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 1.10 GHz
Compute units: 24
Shader: 192
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q2/2016
Max. displays: 3
Generation: 9.5
Direct X: 12
Technology: 14 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 64 GB
Frame Generation: No

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit): Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit): Decode / Encode
h264: Decode / Encode
VP8: Decode / Encode
VP9: Decode / Encode
AV1: No
AVC: Decode / Encode
VC-1: Decode
JPEG: Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The processor can use up to 64 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 38.4 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
DDR4-2400
38.4 GB/s
Max. Memory: 64 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: Yes
PCIe: 3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth: 15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 51 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 51 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: --
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: --

Technical details

The Intel Pentium G4600 is made in 14 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 3.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology: 14 nm
Chip design: Monolithic
Socket: LGA 1151
L2-Cache: --
L3-Cache: 3.00 MB
AES-NI: Yes
Operating systems: Windows 10, Linux
Virtualization: VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA): x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions: SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release date: Q1/2017
Release price: 71 $
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Pentium G4600 have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.


Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i5-7500 Intel Core i5-7500
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
961
Intel Core i3-10100E Intel Core i3-10100E
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
960
Intel Core i3-8140U Intel Core i3-8140U
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
960
Intel Pentium G4600 Intel Pentium G4600
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
958
Intel Processor N200 Intel Processor N200
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
958
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
956
Intel Core i5-10210Y Intel Core i5-10210Y
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
954

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Pentium Gold G5420 Intel Pentium Gold G5420
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
2134
Intel Core i5-7287U Intel Core i5-7287U
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
2128
Intel Processor N200 Intel Processor N200
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
2128
Intel Pentium G4600 Intel Pentium G4600
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
2127
Intel Core i7-875K Intel Core i7-875K
4C 8T @ 2.93 GHz
2124
Intel Core i7-870 Intel Core i7-870
4C 8T @ 2.93 GHz
2124
Intel Atom C5315 Intel Atom C5315
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
2107

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Intel Core i3-5157U Intel Core i3-5157U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
793
Intel Pentium Gold G6505T Intel Pentium Gold G6505T
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
788
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
787
Intel Pentium G4600 Intel Pentium G4600
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
786
Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2
6C 12T @ 3.90 GHz
784
MediaTek Dimensity 1000C MediaTek Dimensity 1000C
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
782
Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G
8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz
782

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Pentium Gold G6405T Intel Pentium Gold G6405T
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
1680
Intel Pentium Gold G6500T Intel Pentium Gold G6500T
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
1680
Intel Core i5-2500S Intel Core i5-2500S
4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
1679
Intel Pentium G4600 Intel Pentium G4600
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
1675
Intel Core i7-2630QM Intel Core i7-2630QM
4C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
1675
Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
1671
Intel Core i3-7020U Intel Core i3-7020U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
1670

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Ryzen 3 2300U AMD Ryzen 3 2300U
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
328
AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2300U AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2300U
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
328
AMD Ryzen 5 2500U AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
328
Intel Pentium G4600 Intel Pentium G4600
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
327
Intel Celeron G5905 Intel Celeron G5905
2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz
326
Intel Core i5-4460 Intel Core i5-4460
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
325
AMD Athlon PRO 300GE AMD Athlon PRO 300GE
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
321

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-2400 Intel Core i5-2400
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
863
AMD FX-6300 AMD FX-6300
6C 6T @ 4.10 GHz
854
AMD Athlon 240GE AMD Athlon 240GE
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
841
Intel Pentium G4600 Intel Pentium G4600
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
838
AMD FX-6200 AMD FX-6200
6C 6T @ 4.10 GHz
836
AMD Athlon Gold 3150U AMD Athlon Gold 3150U
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
827
Intel Pentium G4560 Intel Pentium G4560
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
824

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
AMD A8-6500 AMD A8-6500
AMD Radeon HD 8570D @ 0.84 GHz
432
AMD A8-5545M AMD A8-5545M
AMD Radeon HD 8510G @ 0.55 GHz
425
AMD FX-7500 AMD FX-7500
AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Kaveri) @ 0.55 GHz
425
Intel Pentium G4600 Intel Pentium G4600
Intel HD Graphics 630 @ 1.10 GHz
422
Intel Pentium Gold G6505T Intel Pentium Gold G6505T
Intel HD Graphics 630 @ 1.10 GHz
422
Intel Pentium Gold G6505 Intel Pentium Gold G6505
Intel HD Graphics 630 @ 1.10 GHz
422
Intel Pentium Gold G6605 Intel Pentium Gold G6605
Intel HD Graphics 630 @ 1.10 GHz
422

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
AMD FX-7500 AMD FX-7500
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
3616
AMD A8-5500B AMD A8-5500B
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
3615
Intel Core i5-4460T Intel Core i5-4460T
4C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
3615
Intel Pentium G4600 Intel Pentium G4600
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
3602
Intel Pentium Gold G6400T Intel Pentium Gold G6400T
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
3592
Intel Core i3-4360 Intel Core i3-4360
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
3592
Intel Core i3-4170 Intel Core i3-4170
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
3585

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Pentium Gold G5400 Intel Pentium Gold G5400
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
1044
AMD Athlon 3000G AMD Athlon 3000G
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
1040
Intel Core i3-8145U Intel Core i3-8145U
2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz
1039
Intel Pentium G4600 Intel Pentium G4600
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
1021
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
1021
Intel Xeon E5450 Intel Xeon E5450
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
1019
Intel Core i3-4170 Intel Core i3-4170
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
1003

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i3-6300 Intel Core i3-6300
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
156
Intel Core i5-6685R Intel Core i5-6685R
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
156
Intel Core i5-8600T Intel Core i5-8600T
6C 6T @ 3.70 GHz
156
Intel Pentium G4600 Intel Pentium G4600
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
155
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz
155
Intel Core i5-9500T Intel Core i5-9500T
6C 6T @ 3.70 GHz
155
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz
155

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Athlon 240GE AMD Athlon 240GE
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
397
Intel Pentium Gold G5420 Intel Pentium Gold G5420
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
395
Intel Core i7-7560U Intel Core i7-7560U
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
394
Intel Pentium G4600 Intel Pentium G4600
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
392
Intel Core i3-6100 Intel Core i3-6100
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
392
AMD Athlon 3000G AMD Athlon 3000G
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
388
Intel Core i3-4370 Intel Core i3-4370
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
387

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