Intel Core i7-3540M vs Intel Pentium G4400

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 G4400

Price

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$ 108.02

$ 25.99

$ 82.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1405 points

12% slightly better overall score

1247 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2845 points

5% slightly better gaming score

2702 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1034 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

892 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

993 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

855 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.50 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

13.46 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

803 points

1182 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

442 points

683 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1163 points

0.43% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1158 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

569 points

680 points

19% 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 GHz

3.3 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

54% significantly lower TDP

54 W

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

32 GiB

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

837th of 1,089

884th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-3540M vs Pentium G4400 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3540M beats the Pentium G4400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G4400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-3540M has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G4400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3540M. A Core i7-3540M CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G4400 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 i7-3540M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.