Intel Pentium G3258 vs Intel Core i7 Q 740

Pentium G3258 vs Core i7 Q 740 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7 Q 740 beats the Pentium G3258 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G3258 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7 Q 740 has significantly more cores than the Pentium G3258. Indeed, the Core i7 Q 740 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G3258. It also has more threads than the Pentium G3258. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G3258 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7 Q 740.

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. For instance, the Pentium G3258 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.