Intel Pentium G3240 vs Intel Pentium Gold G5420T

Compare Intel Pentium G Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1091 points

1137 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2377 points

7% slightly better gaming score

2204 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

780 points

855 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

751 points

821 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

903 points

1388 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

529 points

679 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.1 GHz

3.19 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

53 W

35 W

51% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

924th of 1,089

915th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium G Series

Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium G3240 vs Pentium Gold G5420T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Gold G5420T beats the Pentium G3240 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G3240 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Pentium Gold G5420T has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G5420T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium G3240. The Pentium Gold G5420T outputs less heat than Pentium G3240 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Pentium G3240 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.