Intel Core i7-5600U vs Intel Pentium G3240

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 G3240

Price

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$ 2433.00

$ 29.00

$ 2404.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1056 points

1091 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2095 points

2377 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

783 points

0.38% slightly better multitasking score

780 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

750 points

751 points

0.13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1705 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

946 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

542 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1765 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

903 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

926 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

529 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

3.1 GHz

19% 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

933rd of 1,089

924th 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 May

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 G3240 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G3240 beats the Core i7-5600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5600U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-5600U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G3240 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-5600U. A Core i7-5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G3240 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.