I5-3450 VS g4560

[Dave DAvis]

Which one would give me more fps in todays modern gaming?

i feel like having an ddr4 ram gives g4560 abit more edge.

 

[10tacle]

DDR memory does not mean much between DDR3 and DDR4 insofar as gaming FPS. I have not seen the two CPUs directly comparied, but my money would be on the older Ivy Bridge 3rd generation i5 still being better than the newer Pentium G4560. This is especially the case for games that utilize more than two cores. And there are a lot of them.

Here's a GTA V benchmark test of the i3 7350k showing where the Haswell G3258 stacks up against the i5 4690. It should give you an example of which chip, even though your question is among several generation chips in difference, stack up:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11083/the-intel-core-i3-7350k-60w-review/9

Bottom line: a several generation old i5 > newer generation G-series Pentium.

 

[Dave DAvis]

DDR memory does not mean much between DDR3 and DDR4 insofar as gaming FPS. I have not seen the two CPUs directly comparied, but my money would be on the older Ivy Bridge 3rd generation i5 still being better than the newer Pentium G4560. This is especially the case for games that utilize more than two cores. And there are a lot of them.

Here's a GTA V benchmark test of the i3 7350k showing where the Haswell G3258 stacks up against the i5 4690. It should give you an example of which chip, even though your question is among several generation chips in difference, stack up:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11083/the-intel-core-i3-7350k-60w-review/9

Bottom line: a several generation old i5 > newer generation G-series Pentium.

Yeah i know but why tho? for being an 2 cores its stronger than my i5-3450 in single thread use, i've compared my cpu i5-3450 in cpu-z. Turns out that even i5-3570 and i5-2500k is abit behind g4560. https://valid.x86.fr/bench/r87y77/1

Could u estimate how much fps difference between my i5-3450 vs g4560 would be?

 

[Zerk2012]

Any game that uses more than 2 cores the i5 will give better performance.
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Pentium-G4560-vs-Intel-Core-i5-3450/3892vsm161
This site is not 100% accurate but fairly close.

 

[10tacle]

Yeah i know but why tho? for being an 2 cores its stronger than my i5-3450 in single thread use, i've compared my cpu i5-3450 in cpu-z. Turns out that even i5-3570 and i5-2500k is abit behind g4560. https://valid.x86.fr/bench/r87y77/1

I don't know how they tested that in your link so take it with a grain of salt. Single thread use just means raw GHz core speed. In base form, the i5 3450 runs at 3.1GHz on all four cores. If turbo is enabled on one core, it tops out at 3.5GHz. The G4560 runs on two cores at 3.5GHz maximum with no single core turbo boost (unlike the i3 which has a single core turbo boost). So clock for clock they are the same speed at single core vs. two/single core.

Could u estimate how much fps difference between my i5-3450 vs g4560 would be?

Have no way to know since you don't tell what your GPU is and there aren't any benchmarks out there comparing those exact CPUs against each other. Your best indicator for an idea on the difference is to look at my link to the benchmarks of a G3258 to the i5 4690 using several different older GPUs.

 

[spdragoo]

Actual FPS differences vary from game to game, because a) each game has different requirements, b) some games require more cores than others, c) some games are much more CPU-intensive than others, & d) especially with console ports you have varying levels of CPU code optimization.

That being said...
-- GTA V (https://www.techspot.com/review/991-gta-5-pc-benchmarks/page6.html) shows the i5-3470 (just a slightly faster version of your current CPU) having a definite lead (+15% performance) over the 4th-gen Core i3-4130
-- They weren't able to test with as many CPUs with Battlefield 1 because of "hardware changes detected" issues, but they did test the i3-6100T against the i5-6600K (https://www.techspot.com/review/1267-battlefield-1-benchmarks/page4.html). Note that both those CPUs are 6th-gen Skylake CPUs (the Pentium you're looking is only a slightly newer 7th-gen Kaby Lake CPU), & the i3 is a 2C/4T CPU like that Pentium. Again, the i5 had 15-25% better performance.
-- For Honor 9https://www.techspot.com/review/1333-for-honor-benchmarks/page3.html) really shows the advantage of "real vs. HyperThreading" cores, as the 2nd-gen i5-2500K (at the slower speed of 3.2GHz) had better performance than the 7th-gen i3-7350K (at a much higher speed of 4.2GHz), let alone the slower i3-6100 (3.7GHz); the Pentium would probably fare even worse.

In short, the only time you might see that Pentium fare better than your current i5-3450 is in games that only use 1 or 2 cores, & the Pentium's faster clock speeds would be in use. But most "modern" games, especially going forward, you'll see your i5 generally perform better.