Intel Core i5-3340M vs Intel Pentium G3258

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

1242 points

8% slightly better overall score

1144 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2524 points

0.72% slightly better gaming score

2506 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

914 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

813 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

877 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

780 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.39 points

25.97 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1118 points

1343 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

554 points

763 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1053 points

1095 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

525 points

629 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

2.7 GHz

3.2 GHz

18% 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

888th of 1,089

913th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

2014 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 i5-3340M vs Pentium G3258 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3340M is faster than the Pentium G3258. Despite this, the Pentium G3258 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-3340M has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G3258 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3340M. A Core i5-3340M CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G3258 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 i5-3340M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.