Intel Core i5-650 vs Intel Pentium G3258

Core i5-650 vs Pentium G3258 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G3258 beats the Core i5-650 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-650 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-650 has more threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-650 and Pentium G3258 are identical in this regard. The Pentium G3258 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.