Intel Core i5-4300M vs Intel Pentium G3260

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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Intel Pentium G3260

Price

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$ 469.00

$ 49.00

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1314 points

8% slightly better overall score

1206 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2638 points

1.00% slightly better gaming score

2612 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

972 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

863 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

937 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

828 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.96 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

15.34 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1708 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

919 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

844 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

563 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1842 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

995 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

949 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

583 points

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

2.6 GHz

3.3 GHz

26% 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

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

867th of 1,089

899th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 November

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-4300M vs Pentium G3260 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-4300M performs better than the Pentium G3260. Despite this, the Pentium G3260 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-4300M has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G3260 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4300M. A Core i5-4300M 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.

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 i5-4300M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.