Intel Core i5-2450M 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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$ 74.02

$ 44.00

$ 30.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1014 points

1091 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1935 points

2366 points

22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

766 points

783 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

735 points

754 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

6.58 points

12.72 points

93% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

905 points

944 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

466 points

559 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

871 points

987 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

577 points

27% 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

3.2 GHz

28% 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

942nd 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

2012 February

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 i5-2450M vs Pentium G3250 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G3250 beats the Core i5-2450M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2450M in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-2450M has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G3250 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2450M. A Core i5-2450M CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G3250 CPU because of its 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. Indeed, the Core i5-2450M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.