Intel Core i5-2520M vs Intel Pentium G3258

Core i5-2520M vs Pentium G3258 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G3258 beats the Core i5-2520M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2520M in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-2520M has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G3258 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2520M. A Core i5-2520M 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.

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 i5-2520M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.