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intel's pentium g line has largely managed to hold on as one of the better buys of the past few years there's a brief period where the g3 two five eight made a lot of sense for ultra budget mind buyers and then the g 4560 recently particularly at the actually good price of $60 and now intel has its pentium @g 5000 series rebranded as pentium gold the g forty five sixty had stunted growth from limited stock and steep hikes on MSRP forcing people to consider i threes instead up until our threes from AMD shipped the forty five sixty remains a good buy as it dropped toward $60 fully capable of gaming on the cheap but is now being replaced by the units we're reviewing this month before that this video is brought to you by thermal takes view thirty seven case the vo thirty seven focuses on highlighting custom PC builds with its full panoramic window and tinted front acrylic and our thermal testing the view 37 performed reasonably well when considering its looks focused build which is partly thanks to the airflow design and the removal of a bottom power supply shroud for a balance of looks and performance check the link in the description below for the view 37 we're starting with our gaming benchmarks of the g 5600 this is the most expensive of the intel pentium gold series the gold doesn't really mean anything it's basically the version of the Pentium line that we would buy as DIY PC builders but the G 5600 is what we're looking at that's ninety five dollars that makes it forty dollars more than the modern-day price t forty five sixty which is just under sixty bucks and it's about ten dollars more than the fifty five hundred twenty dollars more than the 5400 and the are three thirteen hundred X is roughly 10 ish dollars more at one hundred five dollars on average with the RO three twelve hundred at ninety five dollars so it's a really dense class to compete in and at one point the intel pentium lines were pretty much uncontested here other than when the athlon x4 CP is shipped but those have been few and far between now there's a lot more competition for the g 5600 we're looking at a dual-core quad thread cpu at 3.9 gigahertz no boost and with four megabytes of l3 cache maximum memory support is officially listed at 24 Hertz and using that an appropriate motherboard would further limit that to twenty four hundred megahertz the CPU is make the most sense to pair with non z-series motherboards as you really won't gain any of the benefit from a z series port the 5500 is mostly the same thing except 100 megahertz lower the 5400 is 200 Hertz slower at 3.7 gigahertz with maximum graphics frequency also slowed down by about 95 megahertz if you use the IGP so then just outright d GPU coupled performance and gaming the only major difference between the Pentiums and there are three CPUs and architectural e is the existence of an integrated graphics processor on the Intel Pentium processors so if you're gonna use that for some reason maybe you're not really doing any gaming or at least not anything serious or even you sports like then I guess maybe that's something to note but for our testing purposes we're looking at these as products you would pair with a cheap d GPU like a GT 1030 which we did in some tests and then repair it with a 1080 Ti and others obviously just to eliminate GP bottlenecks because that's how you test processor differences let's go the test bench up on the screen we're focusing on gaming benchmarks only today with a couple of power benchmarks at the end these aren't really CPU as you'd use with blender or anything like that so we're not even gonna bother looking at those results the test bench is sponsored by Corsair is using an ax 1600 eye power supply and a kit of 32 hundred megahertz memory however we dropped that memory down to 24 hundred megahertz for purposes of testing the pentium line cpus because that's the frequency you would use with them sure you can put it with a Z series board sure you could get better memory support but why would you do that so we're testing with it in the configuration that we assume most users would use the processor and we also have data for I 3s and G 4560 thing like that with the lower memory speeds as well so this exits are standardized 30 200 megahertz memory testing with CPU reviews but again it this is a scenario where real world makes more sense to focus on so let's get into the numbers for this we're using H series motherboards it rather than Z series and more information as always will be in the article link the description below if you have questions about the testing platform we're starting with civilization 6 turn time benchmarks first as it's a unique metric that reflects specifically on CPU performance we run a benchmark that has five turns until our next turn and for the G 5600 each turn averages sixteen point three seconds with a twenty four hundred megahertz kit of memory that's among the worst three numbers we've seen Zin civilizations update which means that you're looking at about one minute and twenty seconds between each turn for perspective the fastest performer the overclocked 8700 K sees turn time drops to about 51 seconds when multiplied by five turns in other words to be very simple about this with civilization six if we click end to turn with the 5600 we wait about a minute and a half for our next turn with the stark contrast 8700 K we wait just under a minute for the next turn meaning our next play compared to more reasonably to its predecessor Pentium G 4560 with twenty four hundred megahertz memory the 5600 operates at a time reduction of 7.2% B 5600 also operated at roughly equivalence with our r3 1300 X stock CPU overclocking it would place it ahead of the G 5600 naturally the i3 7300 operated just slightly faster at fifteen point nine to sixteen seconds and would be similar to the 8300 that we haven't yet retested GTA v isn't particularly friendly to the Pentium CPUs although it's still plenty playable we're clearly running into GPU bottlenecking at this point operating at 82 FPS average with the 5600 versus a maximum possible 152 FPS average with our GPU bottlenecked 8700 K and 8600 K 5 gigahertz results so the 5600 is a limiting our GPU here it is the bottleneck the G 5600 still manages to outperform the 45 60 by 17% a remarkable uplift and is roughly matched with the i3 7300 an average 1% and 0.1% lows the r3 1300 X operates 8.5% faster in average FPS with no meaningful difference in frame time performance that's about 1% per dollar extra spent on the 1300 X not about uplift if considering the Rison alternative at 1440p it's about the same results the only thing that changes is the top-end performance because we've been completely bottlenecks on the CPU at the low-end and remain bottlenecks at the high-end by the GPU just because it's already high on CPU the more intensive GPUs and areas of 1440p just don't matter for something like a G 5600 where we're limited anyway to around 80 FPS average assassin's creed origins is an intensive game for these CPUs to sustain and is our next one we finally get some values dipping below 60 FPS average for the Pentium CPU we're down to 55 FPS average for the G 5600 outpacing the 45 60 by 11.7% with these 7300 ahead by 3% the r3 1,300 x gains in a big way outperforming the 5600 by 16% an average FPS and our performing it significantly in 1% low frame time performance performance is similar at 1440p as shown here we have some differences that are within variants but that's about it let's move on to watch dogs to watch dogs - at 1080p has us at 50 FPS average with low as reasonably behind at 39 and 33 FPS 0.1% lows the G 5600 runs about 30% faster than the 45 60 is 44 FPS average again a somewhat remarkable gain since 7300 is at rough equivalence with the 5600 and the r3 1300 X Paul's ahead by 14% with its 56 FPS average lows aren't improved in a meaningful way with the rise in CPU but the average FPS certainly improves significantly and that's for about a 10 to 15 dollar price bump not bad as expected 1440p results post the same values for the low-end nothing changes in the chart here we'll just skip along to the next chart ashes of the benchmark is next and remains one of the most thread intensive games put air quotes around that word and this one we're treating like a synthetic test the GV 600 at 1080p watch 21 FPS average marking at a bit ahead of the 45 60 and a bit behind the 7,300 the r3 1300 X operated at 23.6 FPS average for a lead of about 10% projects cars should favour the Pentium CPUs a bit more than Ash's did for this game G 5600 lands at 70 FPS average and plays reasonably well it's doing fine the 7300 outperforms it by about two percent and the G 45 60s 69 FPS average is outperformed by the 5600 by 13% although not appreciable the G 5600 also does better lows than the G 45 6d the ARMA 3 1300 x manages 85 FPS average with lows also advantaged but again not particularly user appreciable the lead is about 9 percent for the R 3 in this one finally for low-end games we're mostly comparing versus the likes of the and the AP use when using a GT 1030 for the Pentium processors this puts pricing as similar to the RFI 2400 G or close enough to be comparative with a GT 1030 the G 5600 plays rocket League at high settings at 1080p with an average FPS of 64 we're becoming bound by the hardware clearly because you can look at other results and see higher performance the result ties us with the G 45 60 roughly the overclocked r3 1200 and the AP use dota 2 shows similar CPU limitations the G 5600 leads everyone else even though overclock to r3 that's partly because dota 2 shows drawn favor toward Intel its frequency and IPC intensive finally for some perspective it's only fair that we look at power consumption numbers at the EPS 12-volt rails and for Cinebench multi-threaded the G 5600 is the lowest power consumption device we've tested lately for cpus anyway its operating at about 26 watts on the hd7 motherboard with the next lowest device at 40 watts for the r3 1300 x stock CPU the 82 50k stock CPU operated at 46 watt single-threaded power consumption in Cinebench is up against the limitations of our test resolution at about 15 watts for the g4 the 600 single-threaded 3dmark physics testing is our gaming standin and shows a 21 watt consumption at the EPS 12-volt rails that's significantly lower than the 38 watt 1300 X and the 34 watt 8250 K given the average a difference in game performance it seems fair that the G 5600 operates behind the 1300 X when we see these power consumption metrics recapping all that then at 40 dollars more than the G 45 60 it makes that we're seeing the performance differences we are the differences between a 45 60 and a 5600 are significant in some cases double-digit percentages and that's a lot so the $40 makes sense and in a vacuum where we're just comparing previous into all the current Intel it's not a bad jump it is a big jump in price but the performance gain is actually there it's not a vacuum though Intel has other products and Andy now has products that are actually very competitive in this space including AP use as we showed in the low end gaming test where the AP is do exceptionally well very well you end up bottlenecked by other components in a cheap d GPU system anyway so an AP you might make more sense depend on what you're trying to build the RO 320 200 G all costs tallied is a really affordable processor for gaming and can do some graphics as well it's good enough for all the eSports titles we test it's good enough for csgo dota 2 rocket League overwatch all those kinds of games at reasonably high settings so if that's the kind of game you're playing just by the AR 322 energy don't worry about the 2400 G don't worry about a Pentium in a cheap D GPU the 2200 G is exceptional for what it does at its price it is pretty cheap though so if you do have the budget for something better we encourage you to spend it because you will get at this price class you get significantly bigger gains for every extra 10 or 20 dollars you spend it scales that rapidly at the low end so if you can afford more do it but consider that the r3 1300 X or I guess the 1200 if you overclock it are very competitive with the 5600 when you consider the price what's really going to be the question is how do the 50 450 500 per forum which we also will be testing soon because these are the ones where they're ten or twenty dollars cheaper than the 5600 the 56 hundreds biggest weak spot is being ten bucks away or even equivalent from the are three serious CPUs and those actually are very competitive at gaming at the price point it's no longer the case where Intel's just flat out the best at gaming sure at the high end absolutely the 8700 K pretty much uncontested especially considering overclocking but these CPUs the frequencies low enough on them being sub 4 gigahertz and pretty much all cases here that yeah they run really close to our 3s and our threes have potentially advantages and some of the performance metrics as we saw low double digits for some of them high single digit percentages for other games so our 3 is looking really compelling right now and previously we like the G 45 60 so much because at $60 which is what it sold that today and what it always should have been sold at but wasn't at $60 the 45 60 is so far away from our three CPUs and ApS that if you're trying to build the cheapest possible thing a 45 60 with an appropriately non-mining world price GT 10 30 yet say 70 bucks which is what it should be would be a crazy good build for an ultra budget gaming PC but if you're looking higher classes of price than that and with the GPU market the way it is the 5600 just looks kind of like it's an unconvincing by it's hard to recommend it so here's what we'll do for now if you have a really strict budget still consider a 45 60 with a cheap d GPU that's still a good combo or consider the are 320 200 G we have charts for all of them go look at our 2200 G and 2400 G gaming benchmarks to get details on the performance there and make your decision on which one you want if you're trying to spend more than that we would say for now pass on the 5600 unless you really want that IGP which is valid and get an r3 instead or wait for our 5400 5500 benchmarks and see if those offer better value for the 10 or $20 - that you get from the 5600 at which point you're creating enough of a price gap between the r threes that there might be a price reason you would buy the lower end Pentiums but the 5600 is just far too close to price with the our threes and we're seeing enough of an advantage with the our threes and some of these games that is we just don't recommend it right now so it's interesting it's very interesting because Intel for a while now much to their own chagrin has had a really good product for low-end Pentium the forty five sixty three to five eight although limited in its use cases for that one they were good products for ultra budget PC build but Intel sort of stunted the growth of the forty five sixty by not making enough of them prices were too high and now they come out with a new line and it's just not as impressive as it used to be so far we still have seen where to look at so that's it's sort of disappointing but it does show that Andy is making gains in the market for budget CPUs for gain and that's a very good thing to have that competition there so check back soon and subscribe for the follow up benchmarks with the other two processors as always go to stored on cameras nexus nets pick up one of our 3d teardown logo cubes the gamers Nexus anti-static mod matte for building systems on or doing PC mods and go to patreon.com/scishow sexist to tell us how directly thank you for watching I'll see you all next time