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Intel Pentium G3240 logo Intel Pentium G840 logo
General information Pentium G3240 Pentium G840
Launched Q2 2014 Q2 2011
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1150 FCLGA1155
Series Name Intel Pentium Intel Pentium
Core Family Name Haswell Refresh Sandy Bridge
Clock 3.1 GHz 0 % 2.8 GHz 9.7 %
Cores 2 0 % 2 0 %
Threads 2 0 % 2 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 53 W 18.5 % 65 W 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 31.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 2 × 256 kB
2 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 3 MB
1 × 3 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Integrated GPU Intel HD Graphics Intel HD Graphics
Performance Pentium G3240 Pentium G840
Overall Score 33457 0 % 29911 10.6 %
Future Proof 42 % 0 % 24 % 42.9 %
Benchmark Score 1253 0 % 800 36.2 %
Single Thread Score 1736.5 0 % 1267 27 %
Encrypting Data 2857.9 MB/s 0 % 1812.8 MB/s 36.6 %
Compressing Data 32 MB/s 0 % 24.4 MB/s 23.8 %
String objects sorting 4431.2 thousand/s 0 % 3367.3 thousand/s 24 %
Prime numbers generation 14 millions/s 0 % 9 millions/s 35.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 6758.6 millions/s 0 % 4698.7 millions/s 30.5 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 5293.6 millions/s 0 % 2783.7 millions/s 47.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Pentium G3240, Pentium G840.

Average frames per second Pentium G3240 Pentium G840
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 54.2 FPS 43.7 FPS
High settings 86.7 FPS 69.9 FPS
Medium settings 108.3 FPS 87.3 FPS
Low settings 135.4 FPS 109.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 19.4 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V Pentium G3240 Pentium G840
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 109.4 FPS 103.2 FPS
High settings 175.1 FPS 165.1 FPS
Medium settings 218.9 FPS 206.4 FPS
Low settings 273.6 FPS 258.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 5.7 %
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