Intel Core i7-6500U vs Intel Pentium G3260

Compare Intel 6th 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 G3260

Price

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$ 1793.00

$ 49.00

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1306 points

8% slightly better overall score

1206 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2566 points

2612 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

974 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

863 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

934 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

828 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.12 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

15.34 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1641 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

919 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

719 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

563 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

2.5 GHz

3.3 GHz

32% 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

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

870th of 1,089

899th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-6500U vs Pentium G3260 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6500U performs better than the Pentium G3260. Despite this, the Pentium G3260 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-6500U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G3260 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6500U. A Core i7-6500U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G3260 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 i7-6500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.