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AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Cpu
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Intel Pentium G4560 Cpu
Intel Pentium G4560
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Hyper-Threading in a Pentium? It's blasphemy, and also pretty cool.Read more
Set at 3.5GHz, the Pentium G4560 is poised to be the bargain CPU of 2017. It's only 200MHz slower than the much loved Core i3-6100, amazing news...Read more
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General

Processor socketAM4LGA 1155LGA 1155LGA 1151
Component forPC
N/A
N/A
PC
Operating modes
  • 32-bit
  • 64-bit
64-bit64-bit64-bit

Processor

Clock speed3.6 GHz3.1 GHz3.3 GHz3.5 GHz
Max turbo speed4.2 GHz3.4 GHz3.7 GHz
N/A
Number of cores6442
Number of threads12444
Thermal Design Power (TDP)95.0 W95.0 W95.0 W54.0 W
Processor lithography0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in
Bus type
N/A
DMIDMIDMI3
Idle states
N/A
yesyesyes

Integrated Graphics

On-board graphics adapternoyesyesyes
TypeNot availableIntel HD Graphics 2000Intel HD Graphics 2000Intel HD Graphics 610
On-board graphics adapter base frequency
N/A
850.0 MHz850.0 MHz350.0 MHz
On-board graphics adapter DirectX version
N/A
N/A
N/A
12.0

Memory

Cache16 MB6 MB6 MB3 MB
Cache typeL3L3L3
N/A
Memory clock speeds supported by processor2933.0 MHz
N/A
N/A
  • 1333
  • 1600
  • 2133
  • 2400
Memory types supported by processorDDR4 SDRAM
N/A
N/A
  • DDR3L SDRAM
  • DDR4 SDRAM
Memory channelsDual
N/A
N/A
Dual
Maximum internal memory supported by processor
N/A
32.0 GB32.0 GB64.0 GB
Memory bandwidth supported by processor (max)
N/A
21.0 GB/s21.0 GB/s
N/A

Often compared with AMD Ryzen 5 2600X

Often compared with Intel Core i5 2400

Often compared with Intel Core i5 2500

Often compared with Intel Pentium G4560