Intel Core i3-3240 vs Intel Pentium G645

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 41.00
$ 41.00 significantly less expensive
$ 82.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1315 points
38% slightly better overall score
951 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2538 points
22% slightly better gaming score
2076 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

986 points
45% significantly better multitasking score
679 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

946 points
44% significantly better heavy workload score
653 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1122 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
944 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

547 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
514 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1110 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
732 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

544 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
451 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
17% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

55 W
18% slightly lower TDP
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
Identical
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

869th of 1,092
969th of 1,092

Family

The product line

Core
Pentium

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August
2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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