Intel Core i5-3320M vs Intel Pentium G3460

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 G3460

Price

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$ 44.04

$ 80.96 significantly less expensive

$ 125.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1205 points

1242 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2406 points

2695 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

892 points

0.34% slightly better multitasking score

889 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

856 points

0.35% slightly better heavy workload score

853 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1061 points

1352 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

513 points

730 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1046 points

1067 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

514 points

621 points

20% 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

2.60 GHz

3.5 GHz

34% 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

900th of 1,089

887th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

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 i5-3320M vs Pentium G3460 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3320M performs better than the Pentium G3460. Despite this, the Pentium G3460 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-3320M has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G3460 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3320M. A Core i5-3320M CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G3460 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 i5-3320M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.