Pentium G4560 as the best budget quad thread CPU?

[Randomperson89]

I'm just wondering, for 2017, is the Pentium G4560 the best CPU for budget quad thread 2017? It has 4 threads for modern day games, dual threads won't do anything for new games and who needs more than 4 cores/threads. So is the G4560 the best?

 

[RCFProd]

Yeah, the G4560 sets a new standard for pretty insane bang for buck. Can't recommend the i3 line anymore. The G4560 takes the crown!

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

That's exactly what I was thinking. How long has it been since Intel had sufficient gaming CPU for that price?

I think paired with the entry-level GPUs (RX 460/GTX 950/1050) or equivalent it will be sufficient for any game at playable (>30fps) framerates at 1080p.

Should be better than or equal to the i3-4150, and it's still capable when paired with those GPUs.

 

[RCFProd]

I think paired with the entry-level GPUs (RX 460/GTX 950/1050) or equivalent it will be sufficient for any game at playable (>30fps) framerates at 1080p.

Forget even that, it does 1440p@60fps in most games with a powerful enough GPU, like the GTX 1070 8GB. We are talking about a 64 dollar CPU that can unleash a system for top performance at 1440p resolutions and higher. It is insanity.

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

Are there benchmarks?

*May be my way in to a new platform. High-end motherboard with a capable budget-oriented CPU.

 

[RCFProd]

Are there benchmarks?

*May be my way in to a new platform. High-end motherboard with a capable budget-oriented CPU.

Not yet, only been sold for 2-3 days I think.

It's great on paper however. It can't be underwhelming based on the specs that Intel list. As good as an Intel i3-6100. I'm confident it will be as good as the numbers say.

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

I hope it is, it's the most exciting thing about Kaby Lake to me. Where is it being sold? I didn't know it was actually released yet.

*Nvm, I see it's out for pre-order.

 

[RCFProd]

I hope it is, it's the most exciting thing about Kaby Lake to me. Where is it being sold? I didn't know it was actually released yet.

I don't live in the US so I don't know, it doesn't seem to be in Newegg or Amazon yet. However it is sold here in The Netherlands and many more European countries.

 

[Ecky]

I wonder if this Pentium will have AVX1 or 2 instrunctions. Almost certainly not 2, but maybe 1?

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

I wonder if this Pentium will have AVX1 or 2 instrunctions. Almost certainly not 2, but maybe 1?

What is a real-world example of the difference in the two?

 

[RCFProd]

I wonder if this Pentium will have AVX1 or 2 instrunctions. Almost certainly not 2, but maybe 1?

From Wikipedia:

''The Core-branded processors support the AVX2 instruction set. The Celeron and Pentium-branded ones support only SSE4.1/4.2''

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaby_Lake

I wonder if this Pentium will have AVX1 or 2 instrunctions. Almost certainly not 2, but maybe 1?

What is a real-world example of the difference in the two?

For gaming pretty irrelevant I think, to do with Vector.

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

I looked on WikiPedia. AVX started with Sand Bridge. AVX2 started with Haswell. Is this right? Do all CPUs in Haswell have AVX2? or just the Core i3 and up?

 

[Ecky]

Just Core i3 and up. Dolphin emulator supports AVX I believe, and I know of one game (Grid2) that is compiled to use AVX instructions, which suggests games CAN be made to take advantage of them but typically aren't/don't. Part of the reason AVX hasn't caught on is that you need a different executable for CPUs that can't use it, and Intel segments their CPUs by instruction sets so a good percent of CPUs still sold don't support them, meaning games can't be compiled to use them and be universally compatible even with CPUs sold in 2017, despite AVX being 6 years old at this point.

 

[Goran Petric]

Some of you are underestemating g4560, you can pair it up with rx 470 without bottlenecks Watch *hardware unboxed benchmarks on youtube considering that new king of budget cpu.

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

This thread was before benchmarks were released.