Intel Core i7-860 vs Intel Pentium G3260

Core i7-860 vs Pentium G3260 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-860 performs better than the Pentium G3260. Despite this, the Pentium G3260 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-860 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium G3260 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G3260. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G3260 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-860. The Pentium G3260 outputs less heat than Core i7-860 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-860 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.