Intel Core i3-3220 vs Intel Pentium G3260

Core i3-3220 vs Pentium G3260 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-3220 beats the Pentium G3260 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G3260 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-3220 has more threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i3-3220 and Pentium G3260 are identical in this regard. The Pentium G3260 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.

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 i3-3220 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.