Intel Core i3-5010U vs Intel Pentium G860

Compare Intel 5th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Pentium G860

Price

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$ 1151.00

$ 70.73

$ 1080.27 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points

927 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1699 points

1998 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

690 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

666 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

663 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

639 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.60 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

10.26 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1338 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

748 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

659 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

447 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3 GHz

42% much higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

0.25 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

3 MiB

Identical

3 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

980th of 1,089

973rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i3

Pentium

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

2011 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Core i3-5010U vs Pentium G860 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium G860 is faster than the Core i3-5010U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-5010U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i3-5010U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G860 has a much higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-5010U. In terms of cache, the Core i3-5010U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium G860. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i3-5010U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.