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Intel Pentium G3258 vs Intel Core i5-7500

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 2 - 64 %
Intel Pentium G3258
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i5-7500
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 42 %
Intel Pentium G3258
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i5-7500
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Intel Pentium G3258
2C / 2T · 3.20 GHz
667
Intel Core i5-7500
4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz
1,260
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Pentium G3258
2C / 2T · 3.20 GHz
1,396
Intel Core i5-7500
4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
3,685
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

Intel Pentium G3258
2C / 2T · 3.20 GHz
721
Intel Core i5-7500
4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz
961
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Pentium G3258
2C / 2T · 3.20 GHz
1,582
Intel Core i5-7500
4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
3,091
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Pentium G3258
Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1)
184
Intel Core i5-7500
Intel HD Graphics 630
422
CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Pentium G3258
2C / 2T · 3.20 GHz
685
Intel Core i5-7500
4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz
1,580
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

Intel Pentium G3258
2C / 2T · 3.20 GHz
129 cb
Intel Core i5-7500
4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz
162 cb
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

Intel Pentium G3258
2C / 2T · 3.20 GHz
242 cb
Intel Core i5-7500
4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
617 cb

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Intel Pentium G3258Intel Core i5-7500
FamilyIntel Pentium (150)Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU groupIntel Pentium G3000 (14)Intel Core i 7000 (17)
ArchitectureHaswell SKaby Lake S
Technology14 nm14 nm
SegmentDesktopDesktop
SocketLGA 1150LGA 1151
PredecessorIntel Core i5-6500
SuccessorIntel Core i5-8500

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Intel Pentium G3258Intel Core i5-7500
CPU Cores / Threads2 / 24 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 2x 4x
Frequency: 3.20 GHz 3.40 GHz
Turbo (1 Core): 3.80 GHz
Turbo (All Cores): 3.60 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache3.00 MB6.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Intel Pentium G3258Intel Core i5-7500
GPU nameIntel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1)Intel HD Graphics 630
GPU frequency0.35 - 1.15 GHz0.35 - 1.10 GHz
CUs / Shader10 / 8024 / 192
Raytracing
Max. displays33
Max. GPU Memory2 GB64 GB
Technology22 nm14 nm
Release dateQ4/2012Q2/2016

NPU AI performance

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Intel Pentium G3258Intel Core i5-7500
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Intel Pentium G3258Intel Core i5-7500
MemoryDDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory32 GB64 GB
Memory channels22
ECCYesNo
PCIe3.0 x 163.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth15.8 GB/s15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

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Intel Pentium G3258Intel Core i5-7500
TDP53 W65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Intel Pentium G3258Intel Core i5-7500
Chip designMonolithicMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsWindows 10, LinuxWindows 10, Linux
Instruction setx86-64 (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release dateQ2/2014Q1/2017
Release price65 $220 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheetTechnical data sheet

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Intel Pentium G3258
Intel Pentium G3258
2C / 2T · 3.20 GHz
Intel Core i5-7500
Intel Core i5-7500
4C / 4T · 3.40 - 3.80 GHz

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