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
le: as I on on two ddr4 platform even consider a ddr3 one unless almost free
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Is intel really that short sighted?
I'm surprised you had to ask yourself that question.
Locally I can get a brand new i3-6100 only for $10 more than G4620 just for the sake of having that precious "i3" in my device manager. Add a slightly cheaper 100-series motherboard, and you already have a good enough financial reason to buy a new Skylake, rather than Kaby Lake system.
So much for accelerating tick-click-poop-tock cycle.
I'll take cutdown ryzen apus to get to pentium price levels.
They effectively nerfed their own line-up by out competing themselves. Intel sales guy sitting there like "We keep losing sales to this G4560 cpu our competitors are selling for half the price that performs just as well as our i3...hold a tick...that's our CPU!"
What next? Nvidia ups the specs on the 1030 to match those on the 1050 and wonders why 1050 sales are bad?
Honestly, quad cores should be the new entry level where Pentiums are quads i3's are quads with HT, i5's are Hexa-Cores with NO HT, and i7's being Hexa-Cores WITH HT, hopefully coffee lake implements something similar to this for their future mainstream socket.
We're in 2017-2018, they keep adding cores to their HEDT platform, it's time to add more cores to mainstream parts, and it's time to start working harder on IPC gains and stop riding on sandy bridge.
As for AMD, amazing job from the red revolution, infinity fabric will really shape their future and they are offering insane value as compared to intel right now, I am glad intel cant do what they did in the past to deliberately create a monopoly, fair competition is what the consumer needs.
Ryzen 3 is going to cost more than the Pentium, you have to look at possible dual core (or tri core maybe?) APUs for that price range.
Allegedly Could Limit Production ≠ Effectively Kills it
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