Intel Core i5-3317U 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

967 points

993 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1993 points

2170 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

707 points

Identical

707 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

678 points

679 points

0.15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.66 points

11.15 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

840 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

769 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

411 points

461 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

814 points

824 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

403 points

483 points

19% 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

1.7 GHz

3 GHz

76% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

17 W

223% significantly lower TDP

55 W

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

960th 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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-3317U vs Pentium G2030 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G2030 beats the Core i5-3317U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3317U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-3317U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G2030 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3317U. A Core i5-3317U 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 i5-3317U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.