Intel Pentium G4560 Review - Cannibalizing the i3
**The AMD Ryzen 5 4600X: A Great CPU for Budget-Class Gaming**
We've finally reached the end of our testing with Battlefield 1, and we're pleased to see that the AMD Ryzen 5 4600X can handle high frame rates. With an average of 112 FPS, this processor proves itself to be a capable gaming CPU at a budget price point.
However, it's worth noting that our test results were affected by the large number of actors on screen in the game, which drove the performance down linearly. Nevertheless, this tells us that the Ryzen 5 4600X has the potential to deliver strong performance, especially when compared to Intel's CPUs at a similar price point.
In terms of raw performance, the Ryzen 5 4600X puts up impressive numbers against its Intel counterparts. Our testing showed that it outperforms the FX 8370 by about 7.7%, while also beating the I5-2500K by around 10%. However, when we consider the price point of these CPUs, things get more complicated. The Ryzen 5 4600X costs significantly less than its Intel counterparts, with a minimum price jump of $50-$70 compared to the FX 8370 or $100 more for the I7-9700K.
Despite this, the Ryzen 5 4600X is an excellent option for those looking to build a gaming PC on a budget. It's reminiscent of AMD's previous budget-friendly CPU, the Ryzen 3 3200G, and offers similar performance at a lower price point. While it may not offer as much raw power as some of its Intel counterparts, it provides a great balance of performance and affordability.
One key area where the Ryzen 5 4600X falls short is in terms of frame time consistency. Like some of its Intel counterparts, such as the I5-7600K, it can struggle to maintain consistent frame rates over time. However, this may not be a major issue for most users, especially those who are looking to build a gaming PC that will run games at 60 FPS.
In terms of age and longevity, we can expect the Ryzen 5 4600X to hold up well, similar to its predecessor, the Ryzen 3 3200G. We've seen AMD's budget CPUs start to show their age after around one to two years, when new games are released that stress their performance. However, it's possible that the Ryzen 5 4600X will hold on for longer than this, especially if Intel continues to produce CPU refreshes like the Zen+ architecture.
If you're looking for a more powerful gaming CPU, we would recommend considering other options like the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X or the Intel Core i5-11600K. However, at its price point, the Ryzen 5 4600X is an excellent option that offers great value and performance.
In terms of choosing between different CPUs, our recommendations are as follows:
* For budget-conscious users, we recommend the AMD Ryzen 5 4600X.
* For those looking for a more premium gaming CPU, consider the Intel Core i7-11700K or the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X.
* If you're looking for an entry-level CPU that won't break the bank, consider the AMD Ryzen 3 3200G.
Overall, the Ryzen 5 4600X is a great option for those looking to build a gaming PC on a budget. Its performance, combined with its affordable price point, make it an excellent choice for users who want a capable CPU without breaking the bank.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwe're finally reviewing the Intel g4560 CPU the delay was caused by low Supply it was impossible to get this CPU for about a month's time forcing us ultimately to resort to eBay and pay extra for a new inbox g4560 of course immediately after buying it it's now available for $70 on most retailers finally and seems to have returned in stock the penum g4560 is the next closest thing to Intel's predecessor 3258 that performed so well in its price class however briefly that may have been today we're reviewing it versus a couple of i3s and mid-range CPUs before get into those this coverage is brought to you by EVGA and their 1080 ti2 which we've recommended fairly highly for its build quality and uh the icx sensors which are kind of fun to play with you can check our full SC2 review for the 108ti if you're curious to learn more or you can click the link in the description below to find the product page for the 1082 the Intel penum g4560 is a $70 CPU that operates at 3.5 GHz with no turbo support it's a fixed clock for this CPU it's also got a weaker igp in it than the I3 counterparts but we're kind of ignoring that because we don't care about the igp anyway aside from those changes it's a kbl CPU it sockets into modern kbl boards anything that supports kbl will support the g4560 and this cpu's frequency is about 11% slower than something like an i37100 100 but the price is significantly different so we're at 70 for the 4560 in this tra somewhere and 120 for the 7100 $150 for the 7300 and just kind of in our test we have the i36 300 from last gen which we paid $145 for from a retailer so this is a significantly cheaper product 70 bucks that's similar to the g3258 in terms of price point the 3258 had a very short-lived period of shining on the charts and then after that it kind of faded because of limited thread count and things like that but it was a good chip the 4560 looks like it could be the next one of those it is poised to battle with Intel's own I3 line where Intel is already engaged in battle in the I5 versus R5 department and the i7 versus R7 division so at the low end they're actually competing with themselves more than anyone else at this point uh so we're going to be looking at the g4560 today versus is the I 36300 the 7350k will have some mid-range CPUs in there as well uh everything will be in the charts for testing methodology as always including all of the platforms used for testing the memory speeds all that stuff check the link in the description below for the full article as written by Patrick lean but let's start off with something easy we're going to look at Power draw measured from the wall this is total system power draw under stock configurations unless otherwise noted under no workload at all we measured an idle power draw of 44 Watts placed in the 4560 below all the other CPUs we've recently tested which makes sense it's not a performance part with blender multi-threaded workloads hammering all the threads the power draw goes up to about 67 Watts from the wall cin bench puts us at 55 under single threaded conditions with POV Ray hovering at 58 Watts under single thread conditions as well this is all achievable thanks to roughly 1 volt on the core which keeps power consumption low and this is exceptionally power efficient design which means that we won't need a heavyduty cooler for use in real world builds as we show in the article you can get along just fine with a stock cooler and save even more money off of the build by doing so for temperature value see the article Link in the description below we'll move on to blender tests now you wouldn't exactly be using a g4560 for full boore blender rendering tasks but just to provide a baseline of non-gaming performance and synthetics we decided to run the 456d through a few tests anyway in blender the 4560 completes our 4K render scene as created by GN Andrew Coleman in about 10 minutes that puts the 4560 on par with the Phenom 2x6 1055t and a bit slower than the i52500k stock CPU because blender is more of a thread intensive task this Behavior makes sense a four thread CPU or even just a slower six thread zpu as indicated by the Phenom 2 setup is going to have more trouble with rendering than the more modern ryzen or high-end i7 lineups for what it's worth the I 36300 completed the same render in 100 minutes roughly 10 % ahead of the 4560 that's the advantage of a faster clock on the 6300 and is about where you would see the 71 7300 land as well referencing cin bench just for a baseline prior to gaming benchmarks the tool puts Intel's pennium g4560 at the bottom of the chart for multi-threaded performance scoring 386 CB marks whereas the single threaded test had it scoring 150 CB marks the I 36300 for reference operated 9% faster than the 4560 at 422 CV marks and 88.3% faster and single threaded performance that makes sense again given the clock difference that pretty much Falls right in line with that and for more reference points the I3 7350k stock CPU scored 467 CB marks or a 21% lead over the 4560 as gained by spending an extra $100 moving on to gaming benchmarks Watch doogs 2 places the Intel penum g4560 at around 53 FPS average with 1% lows at 42 and GN 0.1% lows at 37 FPS average considering where operating with high settings this isn't too bad and we've got a watch doog 2 tuning guide for geometry reductions to help save on performance anyway but we're also not testing in a vacuum versus the Intel I 36300 which we purchased last year for $145 the 4560 is nearly equal in performance it's a difference of about 2% in average FPS we don't have the i37100 or 7300 but the I3 6300 is only a few percentage points different from those and the $120 i37100 clocks at 3.9 gig GHz making it 11% faster in frequency than the 3.5 GHz 4560 the I3 7300 clocks at 4.0 and costs $150 it's a completely different price bracket to be fair the 7300 also has an extra megabyte of cash but it's also again two times the cost of the 4560 regardless we do have the 7350k stock CPU with its higher base and boost and that one holds a lead of about 25% over the 1/3 cost g4560 that's because the 7350k has a higher base and it boosts and it's $170 so kind of a different price bracket again not really worth it for the 7350k but it was a good idea to do a KQ I3 anyway 4560 with its I3 6300 matching performance looks to be a good deal so far this is somewhat reminiscent of the 3258 but better it is a challenger to Intel's own I3 Market with performance levels comparable to a 2500k just for some perspective we'll highlight the I57 500 and r5500 X respectively these chips run averages that are 52% and 39% faster than the 4560 that said if you're going to be on a tight budget where high-end gpus are not possible the gains aren't actually going to matter until a point where the GPU becomes powerful enough to push into a bottleneck territory anyway let's look at Total War Warhammer keep in mind that Total War Warhammer received an update back during our rise and revisit improving the game's frame Time Performance and consistency on both Intel CPUs and ryzen CPUs only the line items with asterisks have thus far been updated so we need to rerun some of the lower-end Intel CPUs that said the difference in averages a couple percent at best this update was really something that primarily affected 0.1% low performance and AMD smt performance that made clear the Intel penm g4560 operates at 109 FPS average in Total War Warhammer with its lows at 64 we are approaching performance levels of the I3 6300 CPU at 114 average and 66 FPS 1% lows with the i3 6300 running about 4.6% faster than the 4560 despite its initial cost of $145 i37100 and 7300 would perform similarly to the 6300 with a couple perc gain on the 7300 Intel I3 7350k stock CPU operates an average frame rate of about 122 FPS leading the 4560 by about 12% in performance and leading by about 2.5 times in price again with this game as long as you're not going to be running a GPU of $200 plus class any way there's not a huge concern of bottlenecking with the 4560 playing GTA 5 at 1080P and with very high and ultra settings the Intel pennium 4560 operates an average FPS of 101 with GN 1% lows at 72 and 0.1% lows at 66 FPS this leads the CPU to be flanked by the FX 8370 and i52500k stock CPUs with the g4560 mostly tied to the ladder and outperforming the former by 7.9% the more skew comparable i360 6300 meanwhile runs an average FPS of 112 with 1% lows at 80 and 0.1% lows at 73 the 6300 is about 11.5% fast than the 4560 here and is showing some meaningful games in this particular game the I3 7350k for what it's worth runs its Average stock at 121 FPS leading the 4560 x 20% in performance overclocking the i37 350k doesn't appear on this chart because it encounters the same GTA 5 bug that we've been profiling throughout the first quarter of the Year finally Battlefield one will round out our testing for the video with the rest of the benchmarks taking place in the article link the description below then in t penum 4560 is able to handle our Battlefield 1 test at 112 FPS average but keep in mind that the 64 slot servers with a large amount of actors near the player will linearly drive the numbers down ultimately we're just looking at Deltas between Parts anyway so 112 that puts us fairly close to the I5 2500k stock CPU again ahead of the FX 8370 and puts the I 36300 about 7. 7% ahead of the pennium g4560 these gains for the i3s it would be reasonable except the price makes it sort of a tough argument price jumps of $50 minimum $70 for the 6,300 or 7,300 lines and gains of under 10% mean it's A Hard Sell considering someone in this price bracket is on a tight budget anyway the 50 or $70 gains would better go toward other components like the GPU maybe an SSD or something like that the takeaway here is that this is a great CPU for Budget class gaming it is uh reminiscent of the g3258 for those who remember that chip hopefully it'll hold on a bit longer but the 4560 competes most directly with Intel's own CPUs that would be the i3s you're gaining a couple percent in fps maybe depends on the game with something like an I3 7100 or 7300 or 6300 which we did test even the 7350k it posts bigger gains but it's a $100 more expensive so uh this is kind of in a class of its own the 4560 if you're looking for a CPU that is capable of playing games reasonably again these were all at high settings or ultra settings so it can definitely play the games uh if you're looking for something really cheap this is a good place to start the 4560 you do not need an I3 anymore to play games at a reasonable frame rate 60 FPS as long as you've got a good GPU so you can get away with this now it is going to show age a bit faster in the department of things like frame time consistency that's something we've seen for the i5s it will be true for the pennium as well however you're still going to get a good amount of mileage out of this I I hesitate to put a number on it but you're looking at at least a year or two that's kind of where the 3258 started to fade was after about one to two years there were some brand new games that stressed it to a point where it was really unadvisable to inadvisable to use the part so the 4560 will hold on for a while if you're not doing anything really crazy it should hold on quite a while uh this is something that you could put into a machine and later remove and upgrade to a different CPU if you so chose to do that and perhaps move it into something like an htpc later so that you're still getting use out of the part for a machine that's not doing any intensive gaming so this is a good place to look i3s don't really feel all that necessary anymore it as at least as long as Intel keeps making penams like this which they are hit and miss on but the 4560 is something we would recommend over most of the i3 these like the $150 plus ones that make really uh a diminishing amount of sense with ryzen and with the I5 Parts being so close in price so it's kind of g4560 and then I5 class territory or R5 class territory then after that you've got your normal i7s and r7s so uh my choices would be today g4560 at the budget range you go to the middle kind of looking like something like an R5 1600 we recommended that in our review of the 1600 X the 16 is basically the same thing uh so that's a good place to look for an i5 type CPU that we think will hold on a bit better based on our testing that we published in the review the 7600k is still a good chip but um the r5s do give it a run for its money so AMD is good there and then at the top end the 7700k is still the best in gaming hands down it is uh uncontested in the pure gaming build market right now so g4560 r5s i7 is kind of what we're looking at as always thank you for watching you can go to patreon.com gamersnexus to help us out directly Gamers nexus.net for the article subscribe for more I'll see you all next timewe're finally reviewing the Intel g4560 CPU the delay was caused by low Supply it was impossible to get this CPU for about a month's time forcing us ultimately to resort to eBay and pay extra for a new inbox g4560 of course immediately after buying it it's now available for $70 on most retailers finally and seems to have returned in stock the penum g4560 is the next closest thing to Intel's predecessor 3258 that performed so well in its price class however briefly that may have been today we're reviewing it versus a couple of i3s and mid-range CPUs before get into those this coverage is brought to you by EVGA and their 1080 ti2 which we've recommended fairly highly for its build quality and uh the icx sensors which are kind of fun to play with you can check our full SC2 review for the 108ti if you're curious to learn more or you can click the link in the description below to find the product page for the 1082 the Intel penum g4560 is a $70 CPU that operates at 3.5 GHz with no turbo support it's a fixed clock for this CPU it's also got a weaker igp in it than the I3 counterparts but we're kind of ignoring that because we don't care about the igp anyway aside from those changes it's a kbl CPU it sockets into modern kbl boards anything that supports kbl will support the g4560 and this cpu's frequency is about 11% slower than something like an i37100 100 but the price is significantly different so we're at 70 for the 4560 in this tra somewhere and 120 for the 7100 $150 for the 7300 and just kind of in our test we have the i36 300 from last gen which we paid $145 for from a retailer so this is a significantly cheaper product 70 bucks that's similar to the g3258 in terms of price point the 3258 had a very short-lived period of shining on the charts and then after that it kind of faded because of limited thread count and things like that but it was a good chip the 4560 looks like it could be the next one of those it is poised to battle with Intel's own I3 line where Intel is already engaged in battle in the I5 versus R5 department and the i7 versus R7 division so at the low end they're actually competing with themselves more than anyone else at this point uh so we're going to be looking at the g4560 today versus is the I 36300 the 7350k will have some mid-range CPUs in there as well uh everything will be in the charts for testing methodology as always including all of the platforms used for testing the memory speeds all that stuff check the link in the description below for the full article as written by Patrick lean but let's start off with something easy we're going to look at Power draw measured from the wall this is total system power draw under stock configurations unless otherwise noted under no workload at all we measured an idle power draw of 44 Watts placed in the 4560 below all the other CPUs we've recently tested which makes sense it's not a performance part with blender multi-threaded workloads hammering all the threads the power draw goes up to about 67 Watts from the wall cin bench puts us at 55 under single threaded conditions with POV Ray hovering at 58 Watts under single thread conditions as well this is all achievable thanks to roughly 1 volt on the core which keeps power consumption low and this is exceptionally power efficient design which means that we won't need a heavyduty cooler for use in real world builds as we show in the article you can get along just fine with a stock cooler and save even more money off of the build by doing so for temperature value see the article Link in the description below we'll move on to blender tests now you wouldn't exactly be using a g4560 for full boore blender rendering tasks but just to provide a baseline of non-gaming performance and synthetics we decided to run the 456d through a few tests anyway in blender the 4560 completes our 4K render scene as created by GN Andrew Coleman in about 10 minutes that puts the 4560 on par with the Phenom 2x6 1055t and a bit slower than the i52500k stock CPU because blender is more of a thread intensive task this Behavior makes sense a four thread CPU or even just a slower six thread zpu as indicated by the Phenom 2 setup is going to have more trouble with rendering than the more modern ryzen or high-end i7 lineups for what it's worth the I 36300 completed the same render in 100 minutes roughly 10 % ahead of the 4560 that's the advantage of a faster clock on the 6300 and is about where you would see the 71 7300 land as well referencing cin bench just for a baseline prior to gaming benchmarks the tool puts Intel's pennium g4560 at the bottom of the chart for multi-threaded performance scoring 386 CB marks whereas the single threaded test had it scoring 150 CB marks the I 36300 for reference operated 9% faster than the 4560 at 422 CV marks and 88.3% faster and single threaded performance that makes sense again given the clock difference that pretty much Falls right in line with that and for more reference points the I3 7350k stock CPU scored 467 CB marks or a 21% lead over the 4560 as gained by spending an extra $100 moving on to gaming benchmarks Watch doogs 2 places the Intel penum g4560 at around 53 FPS average with 1% lows at 42 and GN 0.1% lows at 37 FPS average considering where operating with high settings this isn't too bad and we've got a watch doog 2 tuning guide for geometry reductions to help save on performance anyway but we're also not testing in a vacuum versus the Intel I 36300 which we purchased last year for $145 the 4560 is nearly equal in performance it's a difference of about 2% in average FPS we don't have the i37100 or 7300 but the I3 6300 is only a few percentage points different from those and the $120 i37100 clocks at 3.9 gig GHz making it 11% faster in frequency than the 3.5 GHz 4560 the I3 7300 clocks at 4.0 and costs $150 it's a completely different price bracket to be fair the 7300 also has an extra megabyte of cash but it's also again two times the cost of the 4560 regardless we do have the 7350k stock CPU with its higher base and boost and that one holds a lead of about 25% over the 1/3 cost g4560 that's because the 7350k has a higher base and it boosts and it's $170 so kind of a different price bracket again not really worth it for the 7350k but it was a good idea to do a KQ I3 anyway 4560 with its I3 6300 matching performance looks to be a good deal so far this is somewhat reminiscent of the 3258 but better it is a challenger to Intel's own I3 Market with performance levels comparable to a 2500k just for some perspective we'll highlight the I57 500 and r5500 X respectively these chips run averages that are 52% and 39% faster than the 4560 that said if you're going to be on a tight budget where high-end gpus are not possible the gains aren't actually going to matter until a point where the GPU becomes powerful enough to push into a bottleneck territory anyway let's look at Total War Warhammer keep in mind that Total War Warhammer received an update back during our rise and revisit improving the game's frame Time Performance and consistency on both Intel CPUs and ryzen CPUs only the line items with asterisks have thus far been updated so we need to rerun some of the lower-end Intel CPUs that said the difference in averages a couple percent at best this update was really something that primarily affected 0.1% low performance and AMD smt performance that made clear the Intel penm g4560 operates at 109 FPS average in Total War Warhammer with its lows at 64 we are approaching performance levels of the I3 6300 CPU at 114 average and 66 FPS 1% lows with the i3 6300 running about 4.6% faster than the 4560 despite its initial cost of $145 i37100 and 7300 would perform similarly to the 6300 with a couple perc gain on the 7300 Intel I3 7350k stock CPU operates an average frame rate of about 122 FPS leading the 4560 by about 12% in performance and leading by about 2.5 times in price again with this game as long as you're not going to be running a GPU of $200 plus class any way there's not a huge concern of bottlenecking with the 4560 playing GTA 5 at 1080P and with very high and ultra settings the Intel pennium 4560 operates an average FPS of 101 with GN 1% lows at 72 and 0.1% lows at 66 FPS this leads the CPU to be flanked by the FX 8370 and i52500k stock CPUs with the g4560 mostly tied to the ladder and outperforming the former by 7.9% the more skew comparable i360 6300 meanwhile runs an average FPS of 112 with 1% lows at 80 and 0.1% lows at 73 the 6300 is about 11.5% fast than the 4560 here and is showing some meaningful games in this particular game the I3 7350k for what it's worth runs its Average stock at 121 FPS leading the 4560 x 20% in performance overclocking the i37 350k doesn't appear on this chart because it encounters the same GTA 5 bug that we've been profiling throughout the first quarter of the Year finally Battlefield one will round out our testing for the video with the rest of the benchmarks taking place in the article link the description below then in t penum 4560 is able to handle our Battlefield 1 test at 112 FPS average but keep in mind that the 64 slot servers with a large amount of actors near the player will linearly drive the numbers down ultimately we're just looking at Deltas between Parts anyway so 112 that puts us fairly close to the I5 2500k stock CPU again ahead of the FX 8370 and puts the I 36300 about 7. 7% ahead of the pennium g4560 these gains for the i3s it would be reasonable except the price makes it sort of a tough argument price jumps of $50 minimum $70 for the 6,300 or 7,300 lines and gains of under 10% mean it's A Hard Sell considering someone in this price bracket is on a tight budget anyway the 50 or $70 gains would better go toward other components like the GPU maybe an SSD or something like that the takeaway here is that this is a great CPU for Budget class gaming it is uh reminiscent of the g3258 for those who remember that chip hopefully it'll hold on a bit longer but the 4560 competes most directly with Intel's own CPUs that would be the i3s you're gaining a couple percent in fps maybe depends on the game with something like an I3 7100 or 7300 or 6300 which we did test even the 7350k it posts bigger gains but it's a $100 more expensive so uh this is kind of in a class of its own the 4560 if you're looking for a CPU that is capable of playing games reasonably again these were all at high settings or ultra settings so it can definitely play the games uh if you're looking for something really cheap this is a good place to start the 4560 you do not need an I3 anymore to play games at a reasonable frame rate 60 FPS as long as you've got a good GPU so you can get away with this now it is going to show age a bit faster in the department of things like frame time consistency that's something we've seen for the i5s it will be true for the pennium as well however you're still going to get a good amount of mileage out of this I I hesitate to put a number on it but you're looking at at least a year or two that's kind of where the 3258 started to fade was after about one to two years there were some brand new games that stressed it to a point where it was really unadvisable to inadvisable to use the part so the 4560 will hold on for a while if you're not doing anything really crazy it should hold on quite a while uh this is something that you could put into a machine and later remove and upgrade to a different CPU if you so chose to do that and perhaps move it into something like an htpc later so that you're still getting use out of the part for a machine that's not doing any intensive gaming so this is a good place to look i3s don't really feel all that necessary anymore it as at least as long as Intel keeps making penams like this which they are hit and miss on but the 4560 is something we would recommend over most of the i3 these like the $150 plus ones that make really uh a diminishing amount of sense with ryzen and with the I5 Parts being so close in price so it's kind of g4560 and then I5 class territory or R5 class territory then after that you've got your normal i7s and r7s so uh my choices would be today g4560 at the budget range you go to the middle kind of looking like something like an R5 1600 we recommended that in our review of the 1600 X the 16 is basically the same thing uh so that's a good place to look for an i5 type CPU that we think will hold on a bit better based on our testing that we published in the review the 7600k is still a good chip but um the r5s do give it a run for its money so AMD is good there and then at the top end the 7700k is still the best in gaming hands down it is uh uncontested in the pure gaming build market right now so g4560 r5s i7 is kind of what we're looking at as always thank you for watching you can go to patreon.com gamersnexus to help us out directly Gamers nexus.net for the article subscribe for more I'll see you all next time\n"