Intel Core i3-550 vs Intel Pentium G3250

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 G3250

Price

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$ 129.95

$ 44.00

$ 85.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1048 points

1091 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1976 points

2366 points

19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

795 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

783 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

763 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

754 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.59 points

12.72 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

944 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

417 points

559 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

899 points

987 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

437 points

577 points

32% slightly 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

3.2 GHz

Identical

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

73 W

53 W

37% 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

934th of 1,089

925th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 May

2014 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 i3-550 vs Pentium G3250 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium G3250 is faster than the Core i3-550. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-550 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-550 has more threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i3-550 and Pentium G3250 are identical in this regard. The Pentium G3250 outputs less heat than Core i3-550 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 i3-550 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.