Intel Core i5-3230M vs Intel Pentium G4400

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 G4400

Price

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$ 99.99

$ 25.99

$ 74.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1086 points

1247 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2128 points

2702 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

812 points

892 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

780 points

855 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.73 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

13.46 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1041 points

1182 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

523 points

683 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1017 points

1158 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

505 points

680 points

34% 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

3.3 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

54% significantly lower TDP

54 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

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

927th of 1,089

884th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-3230M vs Pentium G4400 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium G4400 is faster than the Core i5-3230M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3230M in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-3230M has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G4400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3230M. A Core i5-3230M CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G4400 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-3230M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.