Intel Core i3-3220 vs Intel Pentium G3258

Core i3-3220 vs Pentium G3258 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-3220 is faster than the Pentium G3258. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G3258 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i3-3220 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-3220 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium G3258. The Pentium G3258 outputs less heat than Core i3-3220 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 i3-3220 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.