Intel Core i5-2450M vs Intel Pentium G2030

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 G2030

Price

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$ 74.02

$ 59.99

$ 14.03 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1014 points

2% slightly better overall score

993 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1935 points

2170 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

766 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

707 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

735 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

679 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

6.58 points

11.15 points

69% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

905 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

769 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

466 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

461 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

871 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

824 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

483 points

6% 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

2.5 GHz

3 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

57% significantly lower TDP

55 W

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

942nd of 1,089

952nd of 1,089

Family

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Core

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2013 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 i5-2450M vs Pentium G2030 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-2450M performs better than the Pentium G2030. Despite this, the Pentium G2030 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-2450M has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G2030 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2450M. A Core i5-2450M CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G2030 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 i5-2450M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.