Intel Pentium G2030 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

Last updated: 2024-01-31

CPU comparison with benchmarks


Intel Pentium G2030		AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
CPU comparison Intel Pentium G2030 or AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results. The Intel Pentium G2030 has 2 cores with 2 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.00 GHz. Up to 32 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The Intel Pentium G2030 was released in Q2/2013. The AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX has 16 cores with 32 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 5.40 GHz. The CPU supports up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX was released in Q1/2023.

Intel Pentium (150)	Family	AMD Ryzen 9 (40)
Intel Pentium G2000 (4)	CPU group	AMD Ryzen 7045 (6)
4	Generation	6
Ivy Bridge S	Architecture	Dragon Range (Zen 4)
Desktop / Server	Segment	Mobile
--	Predecessor	--
--	Successor	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The Intel Pentium G2030 has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 2 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Pentium G2030 is 3.00 GHz while the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX has 16 CPU cores and 32 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX is at 2.50 GHz (5.40 GHz).
Intel Pentium G2030	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
2	Cores	16
2	Threads	32
normal	Core architecture	normal
No	Hyperthreading	Yes
No	Overclocking ?	Yes
3.00 GHz	Frequency	2.50 GHz
--	Turbo Frequency (1 Core)	5.40 GHz
--	Turbo Frequency (All Cores)	--


NPU AI performance The performance values of the processor's AI unit. The isolated NPU performance is specified here, the total AI performance (NPU+CPU+iGPU) can be higher. Processors with support for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors.
Intel Pentium G2030	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
--	AI hardware	--
--	AI specifications	--
--	NPU + CPU + iGPU	--

Integrated graphics (iGPU) The Intel Pentium G2030 or AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1)	GPU	AMD Radeon 610M
0.65 GHz	GPU frequency	0.40 GHz
1.00 GHz	GPU (Turbo)	2.20 GHz
7	GPU Generation	9
22 nm	Technology	6 nm
3	Max. displays	3
6	Compute units	2
48	Shader	128
No	Hardware Raytracing	Yes
No	Frame Generation	No
2 GB	Max. GPU Memory	8 GB
11.0	DirectX Version	12

Hardware codec support A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1)	GPU	AMD Radeon 610M
No	Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode / Encode
No	Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec h264	Decode / Encode
No	Codec VP9	Decode / Encode
No	Codec VP8	Decode / Encode
No	Codec AV1	Decode
Decode / Encode	Codec AVC	Decode / Encode
Decode	Codec VC-1	Decode
Decode	Codec JPEG	Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe The Intel Pentium G2030 can use up to 32 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 21.3 GB/s. The AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX supports up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 83.2 GB/s.
Intel Pentium G2030	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
DDR3-1333	Memory	DDR5-5200
32 GB	Max. Memory	128 GB
2 (Dual Channel)	Memory channels	2 (Dual Channel)
21.3 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	83.2 GB/s
Yes	ECC	Yes
--	L2 Cache	16.00 MB
3.00 MB	L3 Cache	64.00 MB
2.0	PCIe version	5.0
16	PCIe lanes	28
8.0 GB/s	PCIe Bandwidth	110.3 GB/s
Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Intel Pentium G2030 is 55 W, while the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX has a TDP of 55 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.
Intel Pentium G2030	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
55 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	55 W
--	TDP (PL2)	--
--	TDP up	75 W
--	TDP down	--
--	Tjunction max.	100 °C
Technical details The Intel Pentium G2030 is manufactured in 22 nm and has 3.00 MB cache. The AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX is manufactured in 5 nm and has a 80.00 MB cache.

Intel Pentium G2030	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
22 nm	Technology	5 nm
Monolithic	Chip design	Chiplet
x86-64 (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2	ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
LGA 1155	Socket	FL1
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d	Virtualization	AMD-V, SVM
Yes	AES-NI	Yes
Windows 10, Linux	Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q2/2013	Release date	Q1/2023
50 $	Release price	--

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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 4 CPU benchmarks

Intel Pentium G2030 (28%)

AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX (100%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 5 CPU benchmarks

Intel Pentium G2030 (4%)

AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Pentium G2030 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	608 (31%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 16C 32T @ 5.40 GHz	1955 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Pentium G2030 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	1217 (4%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 16C 32T @ 2.50 GHz	32788 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Pentium G2030 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	607 (28%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 16C 32T @ 5.40 GHz	2130 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Pentium G2030 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	1124 (6%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 16C 32T @ 2.50 GHz	19472 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	Intel Pentium G2030 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	512 (18%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 16C 32T @ 5.40 GHz	2774 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	Intel Pentium G2030 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	886 (5%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 16C 32T @ 2.50 GHz	16214 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	Intel Pentium G2030 Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1) @ 1.00 GHz	96 (22%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Radeon 610M @ 2.20 GHz	443 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	Intel Pentium G2030 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	1721 (3%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 16C 32T @ 2.50 GHz	58842 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Pentium G2030 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	109 (35%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 16C 32T @ 5.40 GHz	312 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Pentium G2030 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	217 (4%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 16C 32T @ 2.50 GHz	5597 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	Intel Pentium G2030 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 16C 32T @ 5.40 GHz	114 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	Intel Pentium G2030 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 16C 32T @ 5.40 GHz	1669 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Pentium G2030 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 16C 32T @ 5.40 GHz	758 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Pentium G2030 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 16C 32T @ 2.50 GHz	12914 (100%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.


	Intel Pentium G2030 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 16C 32T @ 2.50 GHz	94 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Intel Pentium G2030 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	583 (100%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 16C 32T @ 2.50 GHz	0 (0%)

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)

Efficiency of the processor under full load in the Cinebench R23 (multi-core) benchmark. The benchmark result is divided by the average energy required (CPU package power in watts). The higher the value, the more efficient the CPU is under full load.


	Intel Pentium G2030 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 32,788 CB R23 MC @ 134 W	245 (100%)

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