Intel Core i5-3210M 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 39.99
$ 20.00 significantly less expensive
$ 59.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1066 points
7% slightly better overall score
993 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2093 points
2170 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

796 points
12% slightly better multitasking score
707 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

763 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score
679 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.49 points
47% significantly higher Blender score
11.15 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

974 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
769 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

480 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
461 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

993 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
824 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

489 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
483 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

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

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
Identical
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

931st of 1,089
952nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i5-3210M vs Pentium G2030 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3210M is faster than the Pentium G2030. Despite this, the Pentium G2030 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-3210M has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G2030 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3210M. A Core i5-3210M 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.

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 i5-3210M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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