Intel Core i5-4210M vs Intel Pentium G3460

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 88.04
$ 36.96 significantly less expensive
$ 125.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1250 points
0.64% slightly better overall score
1242 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2527 points
2695 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

920 points
3% slightly better multitasking score
889 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

882 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
853 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1750 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1352 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

886 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
730 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1765 points
65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1067 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

907 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
621 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3.5 GHz
34% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

37 W
43% significantly lower TDP
53 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
Identical
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

883rd of 1,089
887th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5
Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i5-4210M vs Pentium G3460 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4210M beats the Pentium G3460 in overall performance. 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 i5-4210M has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G3460 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4210M. A Core i5-4210M 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.

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 i5-4210M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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