Intel Core i5-2430M vs Intel Pentium G3220T

Core i5-2430M vs Pentium G3220T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2430M is faster than the Pentium G3220T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G3220T in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-2430M has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G3220T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2430M. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i5-2430M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.