Intel Celeron G3930 vs Intel Core i3-4170

Compare Intel Celeron G Series 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-4170

Price

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$ 29.00

$ 12.60 significantly less expensive

$ 41.60

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1153 points

1489 points

29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2473 points

2858 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

836 points

1121 points

34% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

805 points

1076 points

33% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.98 points

27.13 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1039 points

2036 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

606 points

1049 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1026 points

2163 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

600 points

1119 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

3.7 GHz

27% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W

5% slightly lower TDP

54 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

911th of 1,089

811th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron G Series

4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Celeron G3930 vs Core i3-4170 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4170 beats the Celeron G3930 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron G3930 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-4170 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4170 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron G3930. A Celeron G3930 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-4170 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Celeron G3930 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.