Intel Core i7-5600U vs Intel Pentium G3220

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 G3220

Price

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$ 2433.00

$ 98.55

$ 2334.45 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1056 points

1% slightly better overall score

1042 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2095 points

2272 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

783 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

744 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

750 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

714 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.29 points

62% significantly higher Blender score

16.22 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1705 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

883 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

499 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1765 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

890 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

926 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

527 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

16 GiB

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

933rd of 1,089

936th 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

2013 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 i7-5600U vs Pentium G3220 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-5600U is faster than the Pentium G3220. Despite this, the Pentium G3220 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-5600U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G3220 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5600U. A Core i7-5600U 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.

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 i7-5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.