Intel Core i3-530 vs Intel Pentium G645

Core i3-530 vs Pentium G645 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-530 performs better than the Pentium G645. Despite this, the Pentium G645 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 Core i3-530 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium G645. The Pentium G645 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.