Intel Core i5-2430M vs Intel Pentium G3258

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1116 points

1144 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2161 points

2506 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

838 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

813 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

805 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

780 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.39 points

25.97 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

955 points

1343 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

763 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

875 points

1095 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

438 points

629 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

2.4 GHz

3.2 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

51% significantly lower TDP

53 W

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

16 GiB

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

919th of 1,089

913th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

2014 May

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 i5-2430M vs Pentium G3258 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium G3258 performs better than the Core i5-2430M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2430M in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-2430M has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G3258 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2430M. A Core i5-2430M CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G3258 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-2430M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.