i5-4460 VS Pentium G4560

[Frankieanime158]

Hey, I'm thinking of building a mini-itx machine that my buddy can play on when he stays over (lives a town over but stays a weekend to chill and game once in a while). We're both PC gamers, but he has a very low end AMD APU laptop that allows him to play games like MW3 medium/low settings 50fps. He currently just plays on my Q6700 + GTX 260 PC which gives muuuuch better performance. But, I wanna play games like Black Ops 3 with him, so I'm going to put together a mini itx system that's easy to pull out and set up when he stays over, and will work with those games.

For the GPU I was going to go with the 1050ti low profile or any small variants, since it'll handle games like Black Ops 3, WWII, 7 days to die, and Dying Light, just fine. But I have a choice on the CPU. My brother's upgrading his current 4460, and said he'd sell it to me for 50$, but I'll have to find a mini-itx board on Ebay, I also have a spare 8gb stick of DDR3. But the other option is G4560 and a mini-itx board, but also means I'll have to spend 4,000$ on a stick of DDR4 for it. Benefit is I get all new parts on a much newer platform, downside is it costs significantly more.

So, do both of these CPUs perform the same in games? It's hard to find direct comparisons since they're many years apart at this point.

[Jurrunio]

4460 wins every time. Dont even need a benchmark to tell you that it wins a LOT in gaming performance. While the single core performance is noticeably worse, nearly all games use all 4 cores of the i5 anyway.

[3rrant]

1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

4460 wins every time. Dont even need a benchmark to tell you that it wins a LOT in gaming performance. While the single core performance is noticeably worse, nearly all games use all 4 cores of the i5 anyway.

Actually, they are pretty much close to the same. The i5 should be 5 to 15% at best faster in some cases, but they would end up being the same on most games. In dx12 they probably give the very same results.

[Jurrunio]

1 minute ago, ErrantNyles said:

Actually, they are pretty much close to the same. The i5 should be 5 to 15% at best faster in some cases, but they would end up being the same on most games. In dx12 they probably give the very same results.

That comes to the GPU. With a 1050ti both will do the same while the 4460 cost much less. As it is on a not-so-old platform ITX mobo are plenty.

[asus killer]

go with the 4460, overall less cost and about same performance. Easy choice.

Both are dead ends in terms of upgrades so....

[Hiya!]

If you are on a really tight budget then its best to just buy the CPU from your brother and spend lil bit more time to find used mini itx boards.

 

[Morgan MLGman]

10 minutes ago, ErrantNyles said:

Actually, they are pretty much close to the same. The i5 should be 5 to 15% at best faster in some cases, but they would end up being the same on most games. In dx12 they probably give the very same results.

Yeah, but the G4560 will stutter A LOT more and it's going to be obsolete sooner despite being newer.

By going with the 4460 you're losing ~10% of singlethreaded performance but your multithreaded one gains almost 30% and those are four physical cores instead of two. If it's cheaper then it's a no-brainer.

[3rrant]

Just now, Morgan MLGman said:

Yeah, but the G4560 will stutter A LOT more and it's going to be obsolete sooner despite being newer.

By going with the 4460 you're losing ~10% of singlethreaded performance but your multithreaded one gains almost 30% and those are 4 physical cores instead of two. If it's cheaper then it's a no-brainer.

 

7 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

That comes to the GPU. With a 1050ti both will do the same while the 4460 cost much less. As it is on a not-so-old platform ITX mobo are plenty.

No doubt about both of these things.. but I didn't say it was a better choice, I just say they should perform almost equal. I didn't quote the author because I did agree with what anyone else was saying, that the i5 is just a better overall choice

[Morgan MLGman]

Just now, ErrantNyles said:

 

No doubt about both of these things.. but I didn't say it was a better choice, I just say they should perform almost equal. I didn't quote the author because I did agree with what anyone else was saying, that the i5 is just a better overall choice

Well yeah, it should perform similarly in GPU-bound games but as soon as you run a CPU-bound one it's gonna suffer haaaaard. That's the life of a Pentium ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (as proven before by the G3258)

[TheTallGuy]

48 minutes ago, Frankieanime158 said:

Hey, I'm thinking of building a mini-itx machine that my buddy can play on when he stays over (lives a town over but stays a weekend to chill and game once in a while). We're both PC gamers, but he has a very low end AMD APU laptop that allows him to play games like MW3 medium/low settings 50fps. He currently just plays on my Q6700 + GTX 260 PC which gives muuuuch better performance. But, I wanna play games like Black Ops 3 with him, so I'm going to put together a mini itx system that's easy to pull out and set up when he stays over, and will work with those games.

For the GPU I was going to go with the 1050ti low profile or any small variants, since it'll handle games like Black Ops 3, WWII, 7 days to die, and Dying Light, just fine. But I have a choice on the CPU. My brother's upgrading his current 4460, and said he'd sell it to me for 50$, but I'll have to find a mini-itx board on Ebay, I also have a spare 8gb stick of DDR3. But the other option is G4560 and a mini-itx board, but also means I'll have to spend 4,000$ on a stick of DDR4 for it. Benefit is I get all new parts on a much newer platform, downside is it costs significantly more.

So, do both of these CPUs perform the same in games? It's hard to find direct comparisons since they're many years apart at this point.

http://www.game-debate.com/cpu/index.php?pid=2477&pid2=2076&compare=pentium-g4560-3-5ghz-vs-core-i5-4460-3-2ghz

[Storytellar]

8 minutes ago, Etrecz said:

http://www.game-debate.com/cpu/index.php?pid=2477&pid2=2076&compare=pentium-g4560-3-5ghz-vs-core-i5-4460-3-2ghz

Also

 

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=2230&cmp[]=2925

[Frankieanime158]

Ahh awesome, thanks guys. Appreciate it  Yea my concern was the slightly less single core performance.