Intel Core i3-3130M vs Intel Pentium 6405U

Core i3-3130M vs Pentium 6405U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium 6405U beats the Core i3-3130M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3130M in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. The Pentium 6405U outputs less heat than Core i3-3130M thanks to a significantly 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. Indeed, the Core i3-3130M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.