Intel Core i3-3240T vs Intel Pentium Gold G5420T

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1082 points
1137 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2083 points
2204 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

816 points
855 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

784 points
821 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

981 points
1388 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points
679 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
3.19 GHz
10% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
Identical
35 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

928th of 1,089
915th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August
2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i3-3240T vs Pentium Gold G5420T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Gold G5420T is faster than the Core i3-3240T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3240T in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G5420T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-3240T. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i3-3240T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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