Intel Pentium G3258 Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Pentium G3258 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 G3258 scores 721 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 1,582 points.
Intel Pentium G3258

CPU lineage

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Name: Intel Pentium G3258
Family: Intel Pentium (150)
CPU group: Intel Pentium G3000 (14)
Architecture: Haswell S
Segment: Desktop / Server
Generation: 5
Predecessor: --
Successor: --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Pentium G3258 has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 2 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Pentium G3258 is 3.20 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: Yes
Frequency: 3.20 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): --
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores): --

Internal Graphics

The Intel Pentium G3258 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Pentium G3258 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): 1.15 GHz
Compute units: 10
Shader: 80
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q4/2012
Max. displays: 3
Generation: 7.5
Direct X: 11.1
Technology: 22 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 2 GB
Frame Generation: No

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 & PCIe

The processor can use up to 32 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 25.6 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
DDR3-1600
25.6 GB/s
Max. Memory: 32 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: Yes
PCIe: 3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth: 15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 53 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.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 53 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: --
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: --

Technical details

The Intel Pentium G3258 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
AES-NI: Yes
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: 65 $
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Pentium G3258 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.


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 Core i7-7700HQ Intel Core i7-7700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
921
Intel Core i3-N300 Intel Core i3-N300
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
920
Intel Processor N95 Intel Processor N95
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
918
Intel Pentium G3258 Intel Pentium G3258
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
917
Intel Core i3-8100 Intel Core i3-8100
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
912
Intel Core i5-4670 Intel Core i5-4670
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
908
Intel Core i5-4670K Intel Core i5-4670K
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
908

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 Xeon X3440 Intel Xeon X3440
4C 8T @ 2.53 GHz
2256
Intel Celeron N5095 Intel Celeron N5095
4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
2227
Intel Celeron N5095A Intel Celeron N5095A
4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
2227
Intel Pentium G3258 Intel Pentium G3258
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
2173
AMD Athlon 3000G AMD Athlon 3000G
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
2163
Intel Core i7-2720QM Intel Core i7-2720QM
4C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
2137
AMD Athlon Gold 3150C AMD Athlon Gold 3150C
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
2120

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 Core i5-2450P Intel Core i5-2450P
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
723
Intel Core i5-2390T Intel Core i5-2390T
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
722
Intel Xeon X3470 Intel Xeon X3470
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
722
Intel Pentium G3258 Intel Pentium G3258
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
721
Intel Core i7-4712MQ Intel Core i7-4712MQ
4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz
721
Intel Pentium G4400T Intel Pentium G4400T
2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz
721
Intel Pentium G3420 Intel Pentium G3420
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
721

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.
AMD Athlon II X4 860K AMD Athlon II X4 860K
4C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
1586
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
1583
Intel Core i5-7Y54 Intel Core i5-7Y54
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
1583
Intel Pentium G3258 Intel Pentium G3258
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
1582
AMD Phenom II X4 840T AMD Phenom II X4 840T
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
1578
Intel Core i3-3250 Intel Core i3-3250
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
1577
Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 Qualcomm Snapdragon 675
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
1574

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 Core i7-3820QM Intel Core i7-3820QM
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
675
Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2
10C 20T @ 3.30 GHz
672
Intel Celeron G4900 Intel Celeron G4900
2C 2T @ 3.10 GHz
669
Intel Pentium G3258 Intel Pentium G3258
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
667
Intel Pentium G3420 Intel Pentium G3420
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
667
Intel Core i5-4300Y Intel Core i5-4300Y
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
665
Intel Core i3-5015U Intel Core i3-5015U
2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz
665

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.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 Qualcomm Snapdragon 712
8C 8T @ 2.30 GHz
1410
Intel Pentium G3460 Intel Pentium G3460
2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz
1402
Intel Core i3-4330TE Intel Core i3-4330TE
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
1400
Intel Pentium G3258 Intel Pentium G3258
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
1396
HiSilicon Kirin 960 HiSilicon Kirin 960
8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz
1393
UNISOC T700 UNISOC T700
8C 8T @ 1.80 GHz
1392
Intel Core i7-870S Intel Core i7-870S
4C 8T @ 2.66 GHz
1391

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 Core i7-3630QM Intel Core i7-3630QM
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz
245
Intel Core i5-4590T Intel Core i5-4590T
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
243
Intel Core i5-4210M Intel Core i5-4210M
2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
242
Intel Pentium G3258 Intel Pentium G3258
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
231
AMD A10-9700 AMD A10-9700
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
231
Intel Core m3-8100Y Intel Core m3-8100Y
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
231
Intel Core i5-3210M Intel Core i5-3210M
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
231

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.
AMD Phenom II X3 720 AMD Phenom II X3 720
3C 3T @ 2.80 GHz
450
Intel Core i5-4210U Intel Core i5-4210U
2C 4T @ 2.35 GHz
449
Intel Core i3-7100U Intel Core i3-7100U
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
448
Intel Pentium G3258 Intel Pentium G3258
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
443
AMD Athlon II X4 600e AMD Athlon II X4 600e
4C 4T @ 2.20 GHz
438
Intel Core i7-3667U Intel Core i7-3667U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
420
Intel Core i3-2350M Intel Core i3-2350M
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
419

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 Xeon E3-1265L v3 Intel Xeon E3-1265L v3
Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) @ 1.20 GHz
192
Intel Atom x7-E3950 Intel Atom x7-E3950
Intel HD Graphics 505 @ 0.65 GHz
187
Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
Qualcomm Adreno 509 @ 0.72 GHz
184
Intel Pentium G3258 Intel Pentium G3258
Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) @ 1.15 GHz
184
AMD A4-4020 AMD A4-4020
AMD Radeon HD 7480D @ 0.72 GHz
184
Intel Pentium G3440 Intel Pentium G3440
Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) @ 1.15 GHz
184
AMD A4-5300B AMD A4-5300B
AMD Radeon HD 7480D @ 0.72 GHz
184

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 Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700
4C 4T @ 2.66 GHz
2065
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700
4C 4T @ 2.66 GHz
2065
Intel Core i5-2450M Intel Core i5-2450M
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
2064
Intel Pentium G3258 Intel Pentium G3258
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
2062
Intel Celeron 6305 Intel Celeron 6305
2C 2T @ 1.80 GHz
2062
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400
4C 4T @ 2.66 GHz
2061
Intel Core i5-2435M Intel Core i5-2435M
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
2060

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 Core i5-2520M Intel Core i5-2520M
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
709
Intel Core i5-4300U Intel Core i5-4300U
2C 4T @ 1.90 GHz
697
AMD A8-7600 AMD A8-7600
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
693
Intel Pentium G3258 Intel Pentium G3258
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
685
Intel Core i3-540 Intel Core i3-540
2C 4T @ 3.06 GHz
685
Intel Core i5-2450M Intel Core i5-2450M
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
682
Intel Pentium G3420 Intel Pentium G3420
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
673

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.
AMD Ryzen 5 2500U AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
130
Intel Core m7-6Y75 Intel Core m7-6Y75
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
130
Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
130
Intel Pentium G3258 Intel Pentium G3258
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
129
Intel Core i5-4210H Intel Core i5-4210H
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
129
AMD Ryzen 3 2200U AMD Ryzen 3 2200U
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
129
Intel Pentium Gold G5400T Intel Pentium Gold G5400T
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
129

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.
AMD Phenom II X3 B77 AMD Phenom II X3 B77
3C 3T @ 3.20 GHz
243
AMD Phenom II X4 900e AMD Phenom II X4 900e
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
243
Intel Celeron G4920 Intel Celeron G4920
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
243
Intel Pentium G3258 Intel Pentium G3258
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
242
Intel Celeron G5905T Intel Celeron G5905T
2C 2T @ 3.30 GHz
242
Intel Celeron G5900T Intel Celeron G5900T
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
242
Intel Celeron G5900E Intel Celeron G5900E
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
242

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