Intel Kaby Lake - 7th Gen (1151) - Intel Pentium G4560 Impressions

[TheRock]

Greetings, it is known that I change rigs every now and then so I will post a few things about Intel's last BUDGET + Best VFM Deal.

For the impatient TL:DR skip the words see the scores below.

So, last weeks I had another 775 rig on my hands, first with a Pentium E5300 and later upgraded to Core 2 Quad Q9450 (Almost Extreme model with 12mb Cache), though I sold that rig with purpose of building something new, more processing power due new nanotechnology architecture of CPU (budget - low/mid end), less watt. After looking towards the new Pentium series, I came across G4560 which has identical power of i3-6100 (5%- performance) and yet budget costing half the price of the i3. It is clocked at 3,5Ghz, 2 cores but using Hyper Threading it has 2 cores / 4 threads! Which means it's technically same as i3 with Max TDP 54watt and 14nm build! (Versus 95W/45NM of Q9450 and 65W/45NM of E5300).

I bought the G4560 together with Gigabyte H110M-S2PV and 1 dim of DDR4 Crucial rated at 2400Mhz. Total cost was 197,5 Euros, good budget build considering it has a very good integrated graphics card (HD610) which can run most games fluently at 720p/1080p medium~ settings it self. In my case I use a used Nvidia GTX 670 Zotac OC 2GB which I bought few weeks ago for a very good price (Opponent of HD7970 - GTX 1050). I chose a 6th gen motherboard because the chip is locked and unless you pay double the price for a good motherboard there are no overclock abilities plus chip limitations on RAM Mhz.

Anyways, let's get straight to the point. I will re-edit the post few times when I get more results with the following specs:

Motherboard: H110M-S2PV
CPU: Intel Pentium G4560
RAM: 1x4GB DDR4 2400Mhz
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 Zotac OC
HDD: 320GB WD Blue
SSD: Kingston SSDNow V300 64GB
PWR: Corsair VS450

CPU-Z

Single Score:

E5300(OC 3,7): 1120
Q9450(STOCK): 920
G4650(STOCK): 1683
i3-4150: 1573
i5-2500k: 1317
i5-6600k: 1813
C2D E8500: 1076
A10-7850K: 1153

Multithread Score:

E5300(OC 3,7): 2060
Q9450(STOCK): 2348
G4650(STOCK): 3581
i3-4150: 3304
i5-2500k: 5662
i5-6600k: 6949
C2D E8500: 1963
A10-7850K: 4413


Gaming:

A few tests in some games, 775 CPU's were 2x2GB DDR2 800Mhz, G4560 is 1x4GB DDR4 + Nvidia GeForce GTX 670.

Race Driver Grid

E5300: 72 AVG
Q9450: 110 AVG
G4560: 195 AVG

DiRT 3 Minimum/Average (1680x1050 - Ultra  - X8 QSCAA
E5300: 53/78
Q9450: 72/91
G4560: 99/115

CS:Source (Ingame test - everything max)

E5300: 127 (?? Not sure)
Q9450: 249,5
G4560: 288,3

Mafia II - Ultra (Did not use fraps for avg on this, I recall the numbers though)
Q9450: 55-75 (Without APEX)
G4560: 100-140

I will fill more results as I test more games with this G4560. Overall conclusion lefts me very happy with a nice budget CPU which costs 65$!! I will soon replace the RAM or add more because I was just on tight budget.

[Matt Murdock]

Sadly in India, it costs same as an i3 7100. 

[TheRock]

I bought the Pentium for 87 Euros (70 prior to tax), motherboard for 70 (60 without tax), RAM for 38,9 (31,37 without tax)

Bump on purpose, replaced the crappy H110 (turned out factory issue) with a brand new Gigabyte B250M-DS3H..

It boosted speeds of CPU from:

Single: 1683 to 1790
Multi: 3581 to 3962

Tremendous difference, PC boots even faster and in overall performs quite better than before! Can't wait to re-bench games + add more on the list!

[Surena]

it is known that I change rigs every now and then

The new Ryzen CPU`s have been launched officially by AMD a few days ago, and it seems to be faster for much cheaper compared to Intel.


Ryzen 7 1700 beats i7 7700K with a little lower price, though, the i7 7700K is still better in some singlethreaded applications.
Intel Core i7 7700K - CineBench Multithreaded score: 967
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 - CineBench Multithreaded score: 1410 - Cost: 329$ at launch
The Ryzen 7 1700 wins this test with 46% while costing less than the i7 7700K.


Ryzen 7 1700X beats both i7 6800K with 39% and i7 6900K with 4%. Yes, a 399$ CPU beats a 1050$ i7 6900K by a small amount!
Intel Core i7 6800K - CineBench Multithreaded score: 1108
Intel Core i7 6900K - CineBench Multithreaded score: 1474
AMD Ryzen 7 1700X - CineBench Multithreaded score: 1537 - Cost: 399$ at launch


Ryzen 7 1800X beats all the i7 Core lineup except the i7 6950X, but that is logical since its more than three times the cost of an 1800X.
Again, the Ryzen 7 1800X beats the i7 6900K 1050$ CPU with 9% for a whopping 499$ price
Intel core i7 6900K - CineBench Singlethreaded score: 162 - Cost: 1050$
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X - CineBench Singlethreaded score - 162 - Cost: 499$ at launch
Intel Core i7 6900K - CineBench Multithreaded score: 1474 - Cost: 1050$
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X - CineBench Multithreaded score - 1601 - Cost: 499$ at launch


All the Ryzen 7 CPU lineup support overclocking while the 1700 having the lowest TDP for an 8 core CPU (65 watts) and 1700X & 1800X having the XFR function.
The new Ryzen CPU`s seem to be pretty nice for its price they are offering, AMD is rising again!

Ryzen 5 and 3 are still incoming for the more budget-tight costumers, stay tuned!

Maybe a Ryzen CPU can be an idea for the future, since it`s more for budget users but still offers topnotch performance compared to prices from Intel. 

[TheRock]

I know of these news and I am certainly happy, I was never an Intel fanboy. In fact I trusted AMD last year with an FX-8350 & FX970 Build which was fluent enough until the power bill came 

[Radon]

Still rocking with my AMD athlon 64 3500+ 

[ahmedXD]

Im very interested in the G4560, it beats i3-4170
From 100$ to 60$ is a good budget cpu to consider.
Having it. Paired with gtx 1050ti will easy play 1080p games at low cost and good frame rates.
Other than that I didnt like the kabylake gettimg rid of BCLK OC..
Kabylake i3's with overclock are useless for gaming, since single core performance is way more important than core speed, memory bus.

So a recommendation for budget
Get a g4560 if you aim for a very low budget pc .
i5-6400,6500 with z170 motherboard, I don't recommend i7-7400, its locked.

Regarding Ryzen 5 it may beat i5 kabylake,skylake.
If ryzen 3 can beat an i5 then its worth to consider it over i5,i7 for price/performance.