Intel Core i5-7300U vs Intel Pentium G3220

Compare Intel 7th 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

10% slightly better overall score

1042 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2228 points

2272 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

867 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

744 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

833 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

714 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.58 points

51% significantly higher Blender score

16.22 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

2.6 GHz

3 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

259% significantly lower TDP

54 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

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

910th of 1,089

936th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-7300U vs Pentium G3220 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-7300U is faster than the Pentium G3220. Despite this, the Pentium G3220 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-7300U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G3220 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-7300U. A Core i5-7300U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G3220 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 i5-7300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.