Intel Core i5-7300U vs Intel Pentium G2030

Core i5-7300U vs Pentium G2030 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-7300U beats the Pentium G2030 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G2030 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-7300U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G2030 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7300U. A Core i5-7300U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G2030 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 i5-7300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.