Intel Pentium G4520

The Intel Pentium G4520 offers 2 cores and 4 threads. Clocks span 3.6GHz base to 3.6GHz boost. 3MB of L3 cache helps in cache-sensitive games and workloads. It drops into the LGA1151 socket with a 51W TDP — about 25.5W per core. Integrated Intel HD Graphics 530 graphics let it run headless-GPU builds and troubleshooting.

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