Intel Core i3-530 vs Intel Pentium G3220

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 G3220

Price

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$ 51.80

$ 46.75 significantly less expensive

$ 98.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

996 points

1042 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2013 points

2272 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

734 points

744 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

704 points

714 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.44 points

16.22 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

860 points

883 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

412 points

499 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

764 points

890 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

367 points

527 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

2.93 GHz

3 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

73 W

54 W

35% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

38 GiB

18% slightly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

949th of 1,089

936th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-530 vs Pentium G3220 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium G3220 is faster than the Core i3-530. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-530 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-530 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G3220 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-530. The Pentium G3220 outputs less heat than Core i3-530 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-530 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.