Intel Core i5-2300 vs Intel Pentium G3460

Core i5-2300 vs Pentium G3460 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-2300 performs better than the Pentium G3460. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G3460 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-2300 has significantly more cores than the Pentium G3460. Indeed, the Core i5-2300 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G3460. It also has more threads than the Pentium G3460. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G3460 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2300. The Pentium G3460 outputs less heat than Core i5-2300 thanks to a significantly 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. For instance, the Core i5-2300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.