Intel Core i5-3230M 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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$ 99.99

$ 44.00

$ 55.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1086 points

1091 points

0.46% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2128 points

2366 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

812 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

783 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

780 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

754 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.73 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

12.72 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1041 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

944 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

523 points

559 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1017 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

987 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

505 points

577 points

14% 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

2.6 GHz

3.2 GHz

23% 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

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

927th 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

2013 February

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-3230M vs Pentium G3250 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3230M performs better than the Pentium G3250. Despite this, the Pentium G3250 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-3230M has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G3250 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3230M. A Core i5-3230M 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.

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 i5-3230M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.