Monday, July 10th 2017
Intel Pentium G4560 Cannibalizing Core i3 Sales, Company Effectively Kills it
Intel Pentium G4560 dual-core socket LGA1151 processor is too good for Intel's comfort. For the past two generations, Intel has enabled HyperThreading on Pentium dual-core chips, and expanded L3 cache amount from 2 MB to 3 MB; which had been the two key differentiators for the company's Core i3 desktop lineup from Pentium. HyperThreading was warranted by an increasing number of games and applications which wouldn't work without at least 4 logical CPUs. The G4560 is a formidable part at its USD $64 price - 2 cores, 4 threads, the latest "Kaby Lake" micro-architecture, 3 MB L3 cache, and 3.50 GHz clock speeds. On the flip side, it makes buying Core i3 dual-core parts close to double its price a dumb option. Intel's solution? Effectively kill it.
According to a DigiWorthy report, Intel has decided to scale down production of the Pentium G4560 in a bid to cripple its availability, and force consumers to opt for pricier 7th generation Core i3 parts. The cheapest part, the Core i3-7100, is priced almost double that of the G4560, at $117. You get the same two "Kaby Lake" cores, 4 threads enabled by HyperThreading, the same 3 MB L3 cache, but slightly higher clock speeds of 3.90 GHz, and a faster integrated graphics core, if you use one. Does the extra 400 MHz warrant double the price? Not even in the case of Intel's priciest Core i7 SKUs. All prices are Intel's "recommended customer price" for 1000-unit tray quantities.
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DigiWorthy
According to a DigiWorthy report, Intel has decided to scale down production of the Pentium G4560 in a bid to cripple its availability, and force consumers to opt for pricier 7th generation Core i3 parts. The cheapest part, the Core i3-7100, is priced almost double that of the G4560, at $117. You get the same two "Kaby Lake" cores, 4 threads enabled by HyperThreading, the same 3 MB L3 cache, but slightly higher clock speeds of 3.90 GHz, and a faster integrated graphics core, if you use one. Does the extra 400 MHz warrant double the price? Not even in the case of Intel's priciest Core i7 SKUs. All prices are Intel's "recommended customer price" for 1000-unit tray quantities.
80 Comments on Intel Pentium G4560 Cannibalizing Core i3 Sales, Company Effectively Kills it
Agreed AMD should take advantage of this for R3's. Not sure how their platform is doing these days as I didn't follow it closely but I will say I've used many Pentium CPU's in deployments over the past several years with surprising success and it is clear why...thought most of them weren't even the higher end Pentiums like this particular model. Rather being the ones closer to the $50 USD mark. Even those have been mighty impressive.
seriously asking.
"Lets make a CPU as powerful as an i3 with half the cost"
"i3's are not selling as good"
@Dj-ElectriC Product segmentation is marketing's business, not engineering's. As an engineer myself, I dare not imagine how marketing thinks ;)
I don't see that proc online for $64... sure that is the suggested retail but you cant find it for that. amazon has it for $83
the 7100 is $117
pretty simply math really. 83x2 = 166 . Even 64x2 = $128 again neither are "double"
I figure this isn't really the point of the article but still how many people here are buying these procs for more than a HTPC or maybe a budget kids gaming PC? i don't think $117 is going to break the bank or maybe you should start thinking about how you spend you money a little closer.
Added clarification.
The i3 only has a couple of advantages, but none that most people would care about.
It supports "SmartCache" vs "normal" Cache, it supports Optane memory (yay! or something), it supports TSX-NI (not sure this matters for a dual core CPU) and it supports AVX 2.0.
So the article went a little bit on the simple side when features were compared, but none of these features are really making the i3 stand out massively compared to the Pentium imho.
4/4 core-threads with R3 same think.. :)
it's hard to tell people to take G than i3 for their basic needs.. I think intel brainwash them
Yes it's better but for basic needs G serves pretty well and you can't beat its price that cheaper than i3
"Stupid is as stupid does"........