Intel Core i3-3240 vs Intel Pentium G4560

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 G4560

Price

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$ 41.00

$ 44.00 significantly less expensive

$ 85.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1315 points

1563 points

18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2538 points

2914 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

986 points

1189 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

946 points

1142 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.18 points

26.56 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1122 points

1455 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

547 points

686 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1110 points

1450 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

544 points

712 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

3.5 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

55 W

54 W

1% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

866th of 1,089

794th of 1,089

Family

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Core

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-3240 vs Pentium G4560 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium G4560 is faster than the Core i3-3240. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3240 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G4560 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-3240. The Pentium G4560 outputs less heat than Core i3-3240 thanks to a slightly 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. Indeed, the Core i3-3240 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.