Intel Core i5-7300U vs Intel Pentium G3258

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

0.79% slightly better overall score

1144 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2228 points

2506 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

867 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

813 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

833 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

780 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.58 points

25.97 points

5% slightly higher Blender 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

2.6 GHz

3.2 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

253% significantly lower TDP

53 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

913th 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

2014 May

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 G3258 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium G3258 performs better than the Core i5-7300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7300U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-7300U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G3258 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-7300U. A Core i5-7300U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G3258 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.