Intel Core i5-650 vs Intel Pentium G3260

Compare Intel Core 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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$ 66.40

$ 49.00

$ 17.40 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1013 points

1206 points

19% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2051 points

2612 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

747 points

863 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

716 points

828 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.60 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

15.34 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

908 points

919 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

563 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

943 points

995 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

583 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.2 GHz

3.3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

73 W

53 W

37% slightly lower TDP

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

38 GiB

18% slightly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

943rd of 1,089

899th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-650 vs Pentium G3260 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium G3260 performs better than the Core i5-650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-650 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-650 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G3260 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-650. The Pentium G3260 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.

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 i5-650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.