Intel Pentium Kaby Lake G4560 BOX (BX80677G4560)

Big changes

Perhaps it is the Pentium family that has undergone the greatest changes among all the Kaby Lake processors. Unlike the old Pentium Skylake, which were dual-core and differed from the Celeron only in a slightly higher frequency and cache size, the new Pentium Kaby Lake received support for Hyper-Threading technology and became four-threaded, like the Core i3. The youngest and cheapest Pentium G4560 costs just $70 and is now the starting point for building an entry-level gaming PC.

Our whole life is a game

The integrated graphics accelerator of the Pentium G4560 is the same as that of the Celeron - Intel HD 610 – you won't be able to play new games on it. But if you add a discrete graphics card, the situation changes dramatically - the processor can easily cope with medium graphics settings even in the newest games. For high settings, four virtual cores are not enough - you definitely need four physical cores.

There are not many nuclei

Even if you don't plan to play on a PC, we still strongly recommend choosing a four-thread Pentium G4560 over a dual-core Celeron. Multithreaded and, as a result, demanding on the number of processor cores, even seemingly simple applications are now: web browsers, spreadsheet editors, and database management systems.