Intel Pentium G3240 Benchmark, Test and specs
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The Intel Pentium G3240 has 2 cores with 2 threads and is based on the 5. gen of the Intel Pentium series. The processor uses a mainboard with the LGA 1150 socket and was released in Q2/2014. The Intel Pentium G3240 scores 632 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 1,117 points.
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| Name: | Intel Pentium G3240 |
| Family: | Intel Pentium |
| CPU group: | Intel Pentium G3000 |
| Segment: | Desktop / Server |
| Generation: | 5 |
| Predecessor: | -- |
| Successor: | -- |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
The Intel Pentium G3240 has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 2 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Pentium G3240 is 3.10 GHz. The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.
| CPU Cores / Threads: | 2 / 2 |
| Core architecture: | normal |
| Cores: | 2x |
| Hyperthreading / SMT: | No |
| Overclocking: | No |
| Frequency: | 3.10 GHz |
| Turbo Frequency (1 Core): | -- |
| Turbo Frequency (2 Cores): | -- |
Internal Graphics
The Intel Pentium G3240 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Pentium G3240 uses the Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1), which has 80 texture shaders and 10 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
| GPU name: | Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) |
| GPU frequency: | 0.35 GHz |
| GPU (Turbo): | 1.10 GHz |
| Execution units: | 10 |
| Shader: | 80 |
| Max. GPU Memory: | 2 GB |
| Max. displays: | 3 |
| Generation: | 7.5 |
| Direct X: | 11.1 |
| Technology: | 22 nm |
| Release date: | Q4/2012 |
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.
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit): | No |
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit): | No |
| h264: | Decode / Encode |
| VP8: | No |
| VP9: | No |
| AV1: | No |
| AVC: | Decode / Encode |
| VC-1: | Decode |
| JPEG: | Decode |
Memory & PCIeThe processor can use up to memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is --. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system. |
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| Memory type: | DDR3-1333 |
| Max. Memory: | |
| Memory channels: | 2 (Dual Channel) |
| Bandwidth: | -- |
| ECC: | Yes |
| PCIe: | 3.0 x 16 |
| AES-NI: | Yes |
Thermal ManagementThe thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 54 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU. |
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| TDP (PL1 / PBP): | 54 W |
| TDP (PL2): | -- |
| TDP up: | -- |
| TDP down: | -- |
| Tjunction max.: | -- |
Technical details
The Intel Pentium G3240 is made in 14 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 3.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.
| Technology: | 14 nm |
| Chip design: | Monolithic |
| Socket: | LGA 1150 |
| L2-Cache: | -- |
| L3-Cache: | 3.00 MB |
| Architecture: | Haswell S |
| Operating systems: | Windows 10, Linux |
| Virtualization: | VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d |
| Instruction set (ISA): | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions: | SSE4.1, SSE4.2 |
| Release date: | Q2/2014 |
| Release price: | 54 $ |
| Part Number: | -- |
| Documents: | -- |
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Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Pentium G3240 have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.
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.
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AMD FX-9590
8C 8T @ 5.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-4130T
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz |
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Intel Core m5-6Y54
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G3240
2C 2T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2623 v4
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz |
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AMD Athlon Silver 3050e
2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-3667U
2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz |
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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.
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Intel Core i5-4200U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz |
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Intel Pentium Gold 5405U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-6006U
2C 4T @ 2.00 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G3240
2C 2T @ 3.10 GHz |
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AMD Athlon II X4 610e
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz |
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AMD Athlon II X3 460
3C 3T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-3517U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz |
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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.|
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Intel Pentium G4400T
Intel HD Graphics 510 @ 0.95 GHz |
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Intel Pentium N3700
Intel HD Graphics 405 (16EU) @ 0.70 GHz |
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Intel Pentium N3710
Intel HD Graphics 405 (16EU) @ 0.70 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G3240
Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) @ 1.10 GHz |
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Intel Pentium 3550M
Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) @ 1.10 GHz |
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Intel Pentium 3560M
Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) @ 1.10 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G3460
Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) @ 1.10 GHz |
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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.|
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Intel Core m5-6Y57
2C 4T @ 2.20 GHz |
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AMD A8-6500T
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz |
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AMD A6-3670K
4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G3240
2C 2T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Pentium 4405U
2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz |
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AMD A10-5757M
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz |
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AMD A10-5750M
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz |
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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.
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Intel Celeron G4900
2C 2T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-530
2C 4T @ 2.93 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-2430M
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G3240
2C 2T @ 3.10 GHz |
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AMD Athlon II X4 740
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-4000M
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-4210U
2C 4T @ 1.70 GHz |
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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.|
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Intel Core i5-4300M
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-4430
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-4570R
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G3240
2C 2T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4550U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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AMD Athlon Gold 3150U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Intel Celeron G3930T
2C 2T @ 2.70 GHz |
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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.|
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AMD Athlon II X4 620
4C 4T @ 2.60 GHz |
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AMD A12-9720P
4C 4T @ 2.90 GHz |
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AMD FX-9800P
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G3240
2C 2T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Celeron G4900
2C 2T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-7Y54
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-4210U
2C 4T @ 2.35 GHz |
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Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)
Geekbench 3 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.|
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Intel Core i3-4110M
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz |
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AMD Athlon X4 845
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-3517U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G3240
2C 2T @ 3.10 GHz |
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AMD Athlon II X4 860K
4C 4T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-4250U
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-5157U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz |
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Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 3 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.
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AMD Phenom II X4 900e
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz |
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Intel Celeron G1840
2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-4000M
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G3240
2C 2T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Core M-5Y51
2C 4T @ 2.00 GHz |
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Intel Core M-5Y70
2C 4T @ 2.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-6006U
2C 4T @ 2.00 GHz |
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Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)
Cinebench 11.5 is based on the Cinema 4D Suite, a software that is popular to generate forms and other stuff in 3D. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.|
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Intel Core i5-4200M
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-4350U
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-4258U
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G3240
2C 2T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-6167U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-6100H
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-4360T
2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
Cinebench 11.5 is based on the Cinema 4D Suite, a software that is popular to generate forms and other stuff in 3D. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.|
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Intel Core i3-4000M
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-4260U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz |
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Intel Core M-5Y71
2C 4T @ 2.20 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G3240
2C 2T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Core m5-6Y57
2C 4T @ 2.20 GHz |
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Intel Pentium 4405U
2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz |
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AMD Phenom II X3 B73
3C 3T @ 2.80 GHz |
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Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (iGPU, OpenGL)
Cinebench 11.5 is based on the Cinema 4D Suite, a software that is popular to generate forms and other stuff in 3D. The iGPU test uses the CPU internal graphic unit to execute OpenGL commands.|
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Intel Core i3-4130
Intel HD Graphics 4400 @ 1.15 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-4330
Intel HD Graphics 4600 @ 1.15 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-4130T
Intel HD Graphics 4400 @ 1.15 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G3240
Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) @ 1.10 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G3220
Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) @ 1.10 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G3460
Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) @ 1.10 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G3450T
Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) @ 1.10 GHz |
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Benchmarks
Geekbench 5 (SC)
1,664 entries
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Geekbench 5 (MC)
1,651 entries
1,651 entries
FP32 SP iGPU
1,872 entries
1,872 entries
PassMark CPU-Mark
1,422 entries
1,422 entries
CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
719 entries
719 entries
Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,101 entries
1,101 entries
Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,096 entries
1,096 entries
Geekbench 3 (SC)
942 entries
942 entries
Geekbench 3 (MC)
938 entries
938 entries
Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
824 entries
824 entries
Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
835 entries
835 entries
Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries
383 entries
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