Intel Core i3-4170 vs Intel Pentium G3260

Core i3-4170 vs Pentium G3260 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4170 beats the Pentium G3260 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G3260 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i3-4170 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4170 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium G3260. The Pentium G3260 outputs less heat than Core i3-4170 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 i3-4170 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.