Intel Pentium G3250 vs Intel Core i5-6400

Intel Pentium G3250
Intel Socket 1150DESKTOP
3200 MHz / Cores: 2 / Jul 2014
Intel Pentium G3250
Intel Core i5-6400
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
2700 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jul 2015
Intel Core i5-6400

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Intel Pentium G3250
    100%
  • Intel Core i5-6400
    190%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • Intel Pentium G3250
    100%
  • Intel Core i5-6400
    108%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • Intel Pentium G3250
    100%
  • Intel Core i5-6400
    272%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium G3250

Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the Intel Core i5-6400.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i5-6400

8% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 172% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 90% higher average synthetic performance.

Intel Core i5-6400

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core i5-6400

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Core i5-6400

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Core i5-6400

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

Intel Pentium G3250Intel Core i5-6400
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4.2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
CLMUL
FMA3
AVX
AVX2
VT-d
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
F16C
BMI1
BMI2
vPro
Boost 2.0

Architecture

Intel Pentium G3250Intel Core i5-6400
ArchitectureIntel_HaswellvsIntel_Skylake
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR3vsDDR4
CodenameHaswellvsSkylake
Release DateJul 2014vsJul 2015

Cores

Intel Pentium G3250Intel Core i5-6400
Cores2vs4
Threads2vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsIntel HD (Haswell)vsNo

Cache

Intel Pentium G3250Intel Core i5-6400
L1 Cache64 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache256 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache3072 KB (shared)vs6144 KB (shared)

Physical

Intel Pentium G3250Intel Core i5-6400
SocketIntel Socket 1150vsIntel Socket 1151
Max Case Temp72°Cvs72°C
PackageFC-LGA12CvsFC-LGA12C
Die Size177mm²vs177mm²
Process22 nmvs14 nm

Performance

Intel Pentium G3250Intel Core i5-6400
Cpu Frequency3200 MHzvs2700 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevs3300 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP54 Wvs65 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium G3250
    3584 points
  • Intel Core i5-6400
    3795 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium G3250
    7168 points
  • Intel Core i5-6400
    12420 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • Intel Pentium G3250 (simulated)
    129.78
  • Intel Core i5-6400 (simulated)
    140.25

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • Intel Pentium G3250 (simulated)
    236.57
  • Intel Core i5-6400 (simulated)
    644.14

points - higher is better