Pentium G4600: specs and benchmarks

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Pentium G4600
2017
2 cores / 4 threads, 51 Watt
2.28

Pentium G4600 provides poor benchmark performance at 2.28% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

Intel started Pentium G4600 sales 3 January 2017 at a recommended price of $87. This is a Kaby Lake architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3.6 and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA1151 processor with a TDP of 51 Watt and a maximum temperature of 65 °C. It supports DDR4-2133/2400, DDR3L-1333/1600 memory.

Primary details

Pentium G4600 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking1822
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.44
Market segmentDesktop processor
SeriesIntel Pentium, Pentium Gold
Power efficiency4.23of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameKaby Lake (2016−2019)
Release date3 January 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$87of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)
Threads4
Base clock speed3.6 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.6 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
Bus typeDMI 3.0
Bus rate8 GT/s
Multiplier36of 42 (Core i7-7700K)
L1 cache64 KB (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache256 KB (per core)
L3 cache3 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography14 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Maximum core temperature100 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
Maximum case temperature (TCase)65 °Cof 105 °C (Core i7-5950HQ)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-

Compatibility

Information on Pentium G4600 compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFCLGA1151
Power consumption (TDP)51 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Pentium G4600. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI+
AVX+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Turbo Boost Technology-
Hyper-Threading Technology+
Idle States+
Thermal Monitoring+

Security technologies

Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-
EDB+
Secure Key+
MPX+
Identity Protection+
SGXYes with Intel® ME
OS Guard+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

VT-d+
VT-x+
EPT+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Pentium G4600's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-2133/2400, DDR3L-1333/1600
Maximum memory size64 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/sof 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124)
ECC memory support+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Pentium G4600.

Integrated graphics cardIntel HD Graphics 630
Max video memory64 GB
Quick Sync Video+
Clear Video+
Clear Video HD+
Graphics max frequency1.1 GHz
InTru 3D+

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium G4600's integrated GPU.

Number of displays supported3

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium G4600's integrated GPU, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support+
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2304@24Hz
Max resolution over eDP4096x2304@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096x2304@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium G4600's integrated GPU, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12
OpenGL4.4

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version3.0of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)
PCI Express lanes16of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Pentium G4600. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Pentium G4600 2.28

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Pentium G4600 3614

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Pentium G4600 739

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Pentium G4600 1525

3DMark Fire Strike Physics

Pentium G4600 5940

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Pentium G4600's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


Core i5-4460T 100.44
Core i3-4360 100.44
Pentium G4600 100
A12-9800 99.56

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Pentium G4600 is A12-9800, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Pentium G4600:

FX-6100 101.75
PRO A10-9700 100.44
Pentium G4600 100
A12-9800 99.56

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Pentium G4600, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Pentium G4600 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 5773 configurations using Pentium G4600 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.6% (34/5773)
RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4080
0.02% (1/5773)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
0.02% (1/5773)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.02% (1/5773)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.1% (6/5773)
RX 6950 XT Radeon RX 6950 XT
0.02% (1/5773)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.1% (7/5773)
RX 6900 Radeon RX 6900
0.02% (1/5773)

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