Intel Core i7-5500U vs Intel Pentium G3250

Compare Intel 5th Generation Core i7 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 G3250

Price

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$ 2028.00

$ 44.00

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1149 points

5% slightly better overall score

1091 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2264 points

2366 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

853 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

783 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

817 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

754 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.15 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

12.72 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1720 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

944 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

872 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

559 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1695 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

987 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

881 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

577 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

2.4 GHz

3.2 GHz

33% 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

16 GiB

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

912th of 1,089

925th of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i7

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-5500U vs Pentium G3250 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5500U beats the Pentium G3250 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G3250 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-5500U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G3250 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5500U. A Core i7-5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G3250 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 i7-5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.