Intel Core i5-5300U vs Intel Pentium G3258

Compare Intel 5th 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1153 points

0.79% slightly better overall score

1144 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2272 points

2506 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

860 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

813 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

826 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

780 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.25 points

25.97 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1558 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1343 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

813 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

763 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1572 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1095 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

825 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

629 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

2.3 GHz

3.2 GHz

39% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

253% significantly lower TDP

53 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

909th of 1,089

913th of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i5

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-5300U vs Pentium G3258 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-5300U beats the Pentium G3258 in overall performance. 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 i5-5300U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G3258 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-5300U. A Core i5-5300U 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.

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 i5-5300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.