Intel Core i5-3380M vs Intel Pentium G3260

Core i5-3380M vs Pentium G3260 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3380M is faster than the Pentium G3260. Despite this, the Pentium G3260 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-3380M has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G3260 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3380M. A Core i5-3380M CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G3260 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 i5-3380M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.