The Intel Pentium G4500 is a desktop processor with 2 cores, launched in September 2015. It is part of the Pentium lineup, using the Skylake architecture with Socket 1151. Pentium G4500 has 4 MB of L3 cache and operates at 3.5 GHz. Intel is making the Pentium G4500 on a 14 nm production node using 1,400 million transistors. The multiplier is locked on Pentium G4500, which limits its overclocking potential.
With a TDP of 51 W, the Pentium G4500 consumes typical power levels for a modern PC. Intel's processor supports DDR3 and DDR4 memory with a dual-channel interface. The highest officially supported memory speed is 2133 MT/s, but with overclocking (and the right memory modules) you can go even higher. For communication with other components in the machine, Pentium G4500 uses a PCI-Express Gen 3 connection. This processor features the Intel HD 530 integrated graphics solution.
Hardware virtualization is available on the Pentium G4500, which greatly improves virtual machine performance. Programs using Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) can run on this processor, boosting performance for calculation-heavy applications. Besides AVX, Intel is including the newer AVX2 standard, too, but not AVX-512.