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    Intel Pentium G3460 vs Intel Core i3-6100

    Intel Pentium G3460
    Intel Socket 1150DESKTOP
    3500 MHz / Cores: 2 / Jul 2014
    Intel Pentium G3460
    Intel Core i3-6100
    Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
    3700 MHz / Cores: 2 / Sep 2015
    Intel Core i3-6100

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • Intel Pentium G3460
      100%
    • Intel Core i3-6100
      116%

    Relative performance

    Single thread performance index

    • Intel Pentium G3460
      100%
    • Intel Core i3-6100
      108%

    Relative performance

    Multi thread performance index

    • Intel Pentium G3460
      100%
    • Intel Core i3-6100
      124%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider Intel Pentium G3460

    None

    Reasons to consider Intel Core i3-6100

    8% higher single threaded performance.
    Much higher multi threaded performance (around 24% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
    Around 16% higher average synthetic performance.
    Intel Core i3-6100

    Gaming

    HWBench recommends Intel Core i3-6100

    Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.
    Intel Core i3-6100

    Productivity

    HWBench recommends Intel Core i3-6100

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

    Specifications

    Features

    Intel Pentium G3460Intel Core i3-6100
    MMX
    SSE
    SSE2
    SSE3
    SSSE3
    SSE4.2
    EIST
    Intel 64
    XD bit
    VT-x
    CLMUL
    FMA3
    SSE4.1
    AVX
    AVX2
    Hyper-Threading
    AES-NI
    TSX

    Architecture

    Intel Pentium G3460Intel Core i3-6100
    ArchitectureIntel_HaswellvsIntel_Skylake
    MarketDesktopvsDesktop
    Memory SupportDDR3vsDDR3, DDR4
    CodenameHaswellvsSkylake
    Release DateJul 2014vsSep 2015

    Cores

    Intel Pentium G3460Intel Core i3-6100
    Cores2vs2
    Threads2vs4
    SMPs1vs1
    Integrated GraphicsIntel HD (Haswell)vsIntel HD 530

    Cache

    Intel Pentium G3460Intel Core i3-6100
    L1 Cache64 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
    L2 Cache256 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
    L3 Cache3072 KB (shared)vs4096 KB (shared)

    Physical

    Intel Pentium G3460Intel Core i3-6100
    SocketIntel Socket 1150vsIntel Socket 1151
    Max Case Temp72°Cvs65°C
    PackageFC-LGA12Cvs
    Die Size177mm²vs150mm²
    Process22 nmvs14 nm

    Performance

    Intel Pentium G3460Intel Core i3-6100
    Cpu Frequency3500 MHzvs3700 MHz
    Turbo Clocknonevsnone
    Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
    Voltageunknownvsunknown
    TDP54 Wvs51 W

    Raw performance index

    Raw single-thread performance estimation

    • Intel Pentium G3460
      3920 points
    • Intel Core i3-6100
      4255 points

    Points - higher is better

    Raw multi-thread performance estimation

    • Intel Pentium G3460
      7840 points
    • Intel Core i3-6100
      10297 points

    Points - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

    • Intel Pentium G3460 (simulated)
      141.94
    • Intel Core i3-6100
      154

    points - higher is better

    Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

    • Intel Pentium G3460 (simulated)
      258.75
    • Intel Core i3-6100
      321

    points - higher is better

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