Intel Core i3-2130 vs Intel Pentium G3220

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

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Intel Pentium G3220

Price

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$ 47.09

$ 51.46 significantly less expensive

$ 98.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1392 points

33% slightly better overall score

1042 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2662 points

17% slightly better gaming score

2272 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

40% slightly better multitasking score

744 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

41% slightly better heavy workload score

714 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

14.70 points

16.22 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1298 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

883 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

574 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

499 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1064 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

890 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

521 points

527 points

1% slightly 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

3.4 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

54 W

20% slightly 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

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

862nd of 1,120

962nd of 1,120

Family

The product line

Core

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 August

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-2130 vs Pentium G3220 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium G3220 is faster than the Core i3-2130. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-2130 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i3-2130 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-2130 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium G3220. The Pentium G3220 outputs less heat than Core i3-2130 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-2130 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.