Intel Core i5-8400 vs Intel Pentium G3250

Core i5-8400 vs Pentium G3250 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8400 beats the Pentium G3250 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G3250 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-8400 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Pentium G3250 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G3250. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G3250 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8400. The Pentium G3250 outputs less heat than Core i5-8400 thanks to a slightly 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. For instance, the Core i5-8400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.