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we're finally reviewing the Intel g4 560 CPU the delay was caused by low supply it was impossible to get the CPU for about a month time forcing us ultimately to resort to ebay and pay extra for a new in box g4 560 of course immediately after buying it it's now available for $70 on most retailers finally and since that return in stock the penny mg 45 60 is the next closest thing to Intel's predecessor at three to five eight that performed so well in its price class however briefly that may have been today we're reviewing it reverses a couple of I 3s and mid-range CPUs before getting to those that this coverage is brought to you by EVGA and they're 1080p is c2 which we've recommended fairly highly for its build quality and the icx sensors which are kind of fun to play with you can check our full SC 2 review for the 1080i if you're curious to learn more or you can click the link in the description below to find the product page for the 1080i sc2 the Intel Pentium a g4 560 is a $70 CPU that operates at 3.5 gigahertz with no turbo support it's a fixed clock for the CPU it's also got a weaker IGP in it then 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 KP Lake CPU it sockets into modern K V Lake boards anything that supports KBL support the g4 560 and the CPUs frequency is about 11% slower than something like an i3 7100 but the price is significantly different so we're at 70 for the 45 60 and this trait somewhere and 120 for the 70 100 $150 seventy three hundred and we'll just kind of in our tests we have the i3 6300 from last gen which we paid $145 for from retailers so this is a significantly cheaper product 70 bucks that's similar to the g3 two five eight in terms of price point the three two five eight 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 eye three line where Intel is already engaged in battle in the i5 versus r5 Department and the i7 verse r7 division so at the low end they're actually competing with themselves more than anyone else at this point so we're gonna be looking at the g4 560 today versus VI 3 6300 the 73 is DK will have some mid-range CPUs in there as well 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 Lathan but let's start with something easy we're going to look at power drop measured from the wall this is total system power draw under stock configurations unless otherwise noted under no workload at all we measured in idle power job 44 watts placing the four 560 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 bauer draw goes up to about 67 watts from the wall Cinebench puts us at 55 under single threaded conditions with pov-ray hovering at 58 watts under single bearing conditions as well this is all achievable thanks to roughly one volt on the core which keeps power consumption low and this is exceptionally power efficient design which means that we won't need a heavy-duty cooler for use in real-world build as we've shown 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 values see the article link in the description below move on to blender tests now you wouldn't exactly be using a g4 560 for full bore blender rendering tasks but just to provide a baseline of non-gaming performance and synthetics we decided to run the four 560 through a few tests anyway in blender the four 560 completes our 4k render scene as created by AG and Andrew Coleman in about 110 minutes that puts the 4 560 on par with the Phenom 2 X 6 1055 T and a bit slower than the i5 2500 k stock CPU because blender is more of a thread intensive task this behavior makes sense a four thread CPU or even just a slower 6 threads GPU as indicated by the phenom 2 setup is going to have more trouble with rendering than the more modern Rison or high-end seven lineups for what it's worth the i3 6300 completed the same render in 100 minutes roughly 10% ahead of the 45 60 that's the advantage of a faster clock on the 6300 and is about where you would see the 7170 300 land as well referencing Cinebench just for a baseline prior to gaming benchmarks to tool put to intel's pentium d 4 560 at the bottom of the chart for multi-threaded performance scoring 386 cv marks whereas the single threaded test had its scoring at 150 cv marks the i3 6300 for reference operated 9% faster than the 45 60 at 422 cv marks and a point 3 percent faster in single threaded performance that makes sense again given the clock they've rinse that pretty much falls right in line with that and for more reference points the i3 72 50k stock CPUs scored 467 cv marks or a 21 percent lead over the four five sixty as gained by spending an extra $100 moving on to gaming benchmarks watchdogs two places the Intel Pentium g4 560 at around 53 FPS average with 1% lows at 42 and GM 0.1% lows at 37 FPS average considering we're operating with high settings this isn't too bad we've got a watchdogs to tuning guide for geometry reductions to help save on performance anyway but we're also not testing in a vacuum versus the Intel i3 6300 which we purchased last year for $145 the for 560 is nearly equal in performance it's a difference of about 2% in average FPS we don't have the i3 70 100 or 7300 but the i3 6300 is only a few percentage points different from those and the $120 i3 70 100 clocks of 3.9 gigahertz making it 11 percent faster and frequencies on the 3.5 gigahertz 45 60 the i3 7300 clocks at 4.0 and costs $150 so it's a completely different price bracket to be fair the 7300 also has an extra megabyte of cache but it's also again 2 times the cost of the 4 560 regardless we do have the 72 50k stock CPU with a higher base and boost and that one holds the lead of about 25% over the one third to cost g4 560 that's because the 72 50k has a higher base and it boosts and it's 170 dollars so kind of a differ price bracket again not really worth it for the 1750 K but it was a good idea to do a case ui3 anyway for 560 with a thigh 360 300 matching performance it looks to be a good deal so far this is somewhat reminiscent of the three to five eight but better it is a challenger to intel's own i three market with performance levels comparable to a 2500 k just for some perspective will highlight the i5 7500 and r5 1500 x respectively these chips run averages that are 52 percent and 39 percent faster than the four 560 that said if you're going to be on a tight budget where high-end that GPS are not possible gains aren't actually going to matter until a point where the GPU becomes powerful and i'll push into a bottleneck territory anyway let's look at total or warhammer keep in mind that total war Warhammer receives an update back during our rise and revisit improving the games frame time performance and consistency on both Intel TVs and rise in CPUs only the line items with asterisks have thus far been updated so we need to rerun that some of the lower and Intel CPUs that said the difference in average is a couple percent at best this update was really something that primarily affected 0.1% low performance and AMD Azzam T performance that made clear the Intel Pentium g4 560 operates at 109 FPS average in total war Warhammer with the two lows at 64 we are approaching the performance levels of the i3 6300 CTU at 114 average and 66 fps 1% lows with the i3 6300 running about 4.6 percent faster than the four 560 despite its initial cost of $145 by 370 170 300 performs similarly to the 6300 with a couple percent gain on these 7300 Intel i3 7250 case boxy few operates an average frame rate of about 122 FPS leading the 4 560 by about 12% in performance and leading by that 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 anyway there's not a huge concern of bottlenecking with the 4 560 playing GTA 5 at 1080p and with very high and ultra settings the Intel Pentium at four 560 operates an average FPS of 101 with GN 1% lows at 72 and 0.1 settlers at 66 FPS this leads the CPU to be flanked by the FX 80 to 70 and i-5 2500 k stock CPUs with the g4 560 mostly tied to the ladder and outperforming the former by 7.9 percent the more skew comparable i3 6300 meanwhile runs an average FPS of 112 with one percent lows at 80 and 0% loads at 73 the 6300 is about 11.5 percent faster than the 45 60 here and is showing some meaningful games in this particular game the AI 372 DK for what it's worth it runs its average stock at 121 fps leading the 45 60 by 20% in performance requiring the AI 317 to K doesn't appear on this chart because it encounters the same GTA 5 bugs that we've been profiling throughout the first quarter of the year finally a battlefield 1 will round out our testing for the video with the rest of the benchmarks taking place in the article linked to a description below then tell Pentium 4 560 is able to handle our battlefield one 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 i-5 2500 k stock CPU again ahead of the FX 83-70 and puts the i3 6300 about 7.7 percent ahead of the pentium g 4 560 these gains for the i3 s it would be reasonable except the price makes it sort of a tough argument price jumps of $50 minimum $70 for the sixty three hundred and seventy three hundred lines and gains of under 10% meme 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 reminiscent of the g3 2 5 8 for those who remember that chip hopefully it'll hold on a bit longer but the 4 560 competes most directly with Intel's own GPUs that would be the i3 you're gaining a couple percent in FPS maybe depends on the game with something like an i3 70 100 or 70 300 or 6300 which we did test even the Soviets you hit DK it posts bigger gains but it's $100 more expensive so this is kind of in a class of its own the 4 or 5 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 if you're looking for something really cheap this is a good place to start the four five sixty you do not need an i3 any more to play games at a reasonable frame rate 60fps as long as you've got a good GPU so you can get away with this now it is going to show a is 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 Pentiums 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 three to five eight 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 tease apart so the 4560 will hold on for a while if you're not doing anything really crazy it should hold on quite a while 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 aged CPC later so 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 I threes don't really feel all that necessary anymore it heavily says lot of them donkeys making pennies like this which they are hit and miss on but the four or five sixty is something we recommend over most of the i3s like the $150 plus ones that make really a diminishing amount of sense with Rison and with the i-5 parts being so close in price so it's kind of g4 560 and then i-5 class territory or r5 class territory then after that you've got your normal ice evans and our seven so my choices would be today g4 560 at the budget range you go to the middle kind of lookin like something like an r5 1600 we recommended that in our review of the 1600 X the 16 hundreds basically the same thing so that's a good place to look for an i-5 type CPU that we think will hold on a bit better based on our testing that we published in the review this 600k is still good chip but the r5s do give it a run for its money so Andy's get there and then at the top end the 7700 K is still the best in gaming hands down it is uncontested in the pure gaming build market right now so G for 560 are fives PI sevens is kind of what we're looking at as always thank you for watching you can go to patreon.com/scishow and access stuff without directly gamers max has done that for the article subscribe for more I'll see you all next time you