Intel Pentium G3260 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400

Compare Intel Pentium G Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400

Price

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$ 49.00

$ 38.03

$ 10.97 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1206 points

1227 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2612 points

14% slightly better gaming score

2282 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

863 points

933 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

828 points

895 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.34 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

14.84 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

919 points

970 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

563 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

344 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

995 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

935 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

583 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

337 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

53 W

79% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

899th of 1,089

894th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium G Series

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

2008 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium G3260 vs Core 2 Quad Q9400 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Quad Q9400 is faster 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 2 Quad Q9400 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 2 Quad Q9400. A Pentium G3260 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q9400 CPU because of its 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. For instance, the Pentium G3260 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.