Intel Pentium G3240

Intel Pentium G3240 Benchmark and Specs

Intel Pentium G3240 Processor benchmark, specs and release date - 3 GHz 2 core Intel Pentium G Series LGA 1150 CPU rating. Is the Pentium G3240 good for gaming?

Benchmark Score

1,091
Average score from 1 sample
High uncertainty
Performance
Average
Ranking
924th of 1,089
Popularity
931st of 1,089
Samples
1 benchmarks

CPU benchmarks

Here are the performance results of this CPU in both the hardwareDB Benchmark and other benchmark utilities. Synthetic tests are an estimation of real-world performance using consistent and repeatable benchmarks.

Overall

Average

1,091

Gaming

Average

2,377

Multitasking

Bad

780

Heavy Workloads

Bad

751

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Alternative benchmarks

Here are some benchmark results using alternative testing software

Geekbench 5 (multi)

Geekbench 5 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

946
Geekbench 5 (single)

Geekbench 5 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

542
Geekbench 6 (multi)

Geekbench 6 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

903
Geekbench 6 (single)

Geekbench 6 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

529

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CPU Comparison

The Intel Pentium G3240 compared against popular alternatives. Compare against more CPUs with our CPU Comparison Tool.

Intel Core i7 Q 740
1,112 points
Intel Pentium G3240
1,091 points
Intel Core i5-3230M
1,086 points
Intel Core i3-3240T
1,082 points
AMD A10-9600P
1,061 points
Intel Core i3-550
1,048 points
Intel Core i3-8109U
1,040 points

Specifications

Clock Speed 3.1 GHz
Cores 2
Threads 2
PCIe Revision 3
PCIe Lanes 16
Socket LGA 1150
Family Pentium G Series
Memory Type DDR3-1333
Memory Channels 2
Max Memory 32 GiB
Release Date 2014-05-01
Supports ECC Memory Yes
TDP 53 W

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Intel Pentium G3240

The Pentium G3240 is a 2 core CPU from Intel released in 2014. This chip has an average overall score with 1091 points in our CPU benchmark. Our gaming benchmark shows that this CPU is an average processor for gaming, with a score of 2377 points. As for multitasking and heavy workloads, the Pentium G3240 scores 780 points and 751 points respectively. Indeed, this is a bad rating for very heavy workloads.

The Pentium G3240 has 2 cores and 2 threads. This chip has no simultaneous multithreading support, as it has the same number of cores as threads. This Intel CPU has a clock speed of 3.1 GHz.

As for memory, the Pentium G3240 makes use of DDR3-1333 memory. The faster the memory, the better. Faster memory means that the CPU doesn't have to wait to get the data it needs. It can accommodate a maximum of 32 GiB of memory. Furthermore, this chip can handle up to 2 channels of RAM, a multichannel memory architecture allows for higher data transfer between the CPU and the memory. However, to take advantage of this, you must have enough memory slots filled. Error correcting memory is supported on this processor.

This CPU has fast connectivity with support for PCI-Express Gen 3. The faster the PCIe link, the better. This allows for better performance with GPUs and NVME SSDs. It has a total of 16 PCIe lanes.

Power and thermals for the Intel Pentium G3240 CPU are a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of 53 watts. This measures the amount of heat the processor produces when running at full load. This isn't a measure of power consumption, but it's a good estimate.

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