Intel Celeron G3930 vs Intel Core i5-3230M

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

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Intel Core i5-3230M

Price

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$ 29.00

$ 70.99 significantly less expensive

$ 99.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1153 points

6% slightly better overall score

1086 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2473 points

16% slightly better gaming score

2128 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

836 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

812 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

805 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

780 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.98 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

17.73 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1039 points

1041 points

0.19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

606 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

523 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1026 points

0.88% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1017 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

600 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

505 points

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

11% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W

35 W

45% significantly lower TDP

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

927th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron G Series

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2013 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 i5-3230M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Celeron G3930 is faster than the Core i5-3230M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3230M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-3230M has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Celeron G3930 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3230M. The Core i5-3230M outputs less heat than Celeron G3930 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Celeron G3930 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.