Intel Core i5-650 vs Intel Pentium G3240

Core i5-650 vs Pentium G3240 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-650 beats the Pentium G3240 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G3240 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-650 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-650 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium G3240. The Pentium G3240 outputs less heat than Core i5-650 thanks to a slightly 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 i5-650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.