Intel Core i5-3230M vs Intel Pentium 6405U

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel 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

1086 points

13% slightly better overall score

953 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2128 points

13% slightly better gaming score

1881 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

812 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

712 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

780 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

683 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.73 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

12.36 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

927th of 1,089

965th of 1,089

Family

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3230M vs Pentium 6405U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3230M performs better than the Pentium 6405U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium 6405U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. The Pentium 6405U outputs less heat than Core i5-3230M thanks to a 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 i5-3230M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.