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Intel Pentium G4560 Review
The Intel Pentium G4560 is part of the Kaby Lake family of processors which were launched at CES 2017. The lineup includes several Pentium and Core series processors. The Pentium G4560 is a $64 US processor which is placed in the lineup and may not look like much until we get into the specifications of this part.

The Pentium G4560 is a dual core processor that comes with Hyper-Threading Technology. It has four threads and this is the first time Intel has enabled the technology on Pentium series processors. The CPU comes with clock speeds of 3.50 GHz base frequency but no boost clocks. The chip stores a 3 MB L3 cache and has a TDP of 54W. The processor also packs the latest HD Graphics 610 clocked at 1150 MHz. The chip has a price of 64 USD which is really good.
The full performance review of the Pentium G4560 is published by ComputerBase. Their performance tests are surprising as the $64 US chip is able to not only outperform a 6 core AMD FX-6300 processor but also manages to be on par with the higher priced Core i3-6100 Skylake ($117 US) and the once gaming champ, the Core i5-2500K which sold for around $230 US.

Applications Performance (Windows):

• 15% faster than $90 FX-6300
• 21% faster than $60 Pentium G4400
• 23% faster than $149 A10-7890K

Gaming Performance (1080p):

• 16% faster than $89 FX-6300
• 26% faster than $60 Pentium G4400
• 26% faster than $149 A10-7890K

In gaming benchmarks on 1080p and 720p, the Pentium G4560 single-handedly beats out the Pentium G4400, FX-6300 and A10-7890K while being under 5% slower than the more expensive Core i3-6100 and Core i5-2500K. In general Windows applications and synthetic benchmarks, the difference between the Pentium G4560 and Core i3-6100 is just 3% while the i5-2500K is just 1% faster when average performance is calculated. In the Cinebench R15 benchmark, the Pentium G4560 is faster in multi-threaded performance while the Core i3-6100 ends up a bit faster during single-threaded evaluation.

Intel Pentium G4560 Multi-GPU and Multi-Tasking Performance:

The performance tests reveal that the Pentium G4560 is very much capable of handling graphics cards from both mainstream and enthusiast tiers such as the Fury X and GTX 980 Ti. The chip can also handle multiple GPUs well with GTX 980 Ti SLI performance in Witcher 3 matching the Core i5-7600K.