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General information Pentium G3258 Core i3-540
Launched Q2 2014 Q1 2010
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1150 LGA1156
Series Name Intel Pentium Intel Core i3
Core Family Name Haswell Refresh Clarkdale
Clock 3.2 GHz 0 % 3.1 GHz 3.1 %
Cores 2 0 % 2 0 %
Threads 2 50 % 4 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 53 W 27.4 % 73 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 × 4 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported No Yes
Integrated GPU Intel HD Graphics Intel HD Graphics
Performance Pentium G3258 Core i3-540
Overall Score 34037 0 % 31563 7.3 %
Future Proof 42 % 0 % 17 % 59.5 %
Benchmark Score 1342 0 % 992 26.1 %
Single Thread Score 1864.4 0 % 1282.4 31.2 %
Encrypting Data 3083.3 MB/s 0 % 2282.1 MB/s 26 %
Compressing Data 34.8 MB/s 0 % 33.1 MB/s 4.8 %
String objects sorting 4920.1 thousand/s 0 % 4557.9 thousand/s 7.4 %
Prime numbers generation 16.1 millions/s 0 % 10.1 millions/s 37.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 7320.6 millions/s 8.9 % 8038.7 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 5657.3 millions/s 0 % 3531.5 millions/s 37.6 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Pentium G3258, Core i3-540.

Average frames per second Pentium G3258 Core i3-540
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 55.8 FPS 48.6 FPS
High settings 89.3 FPS 77.7 FPS
Medium settings 111.7 FPS 97.1 FPS
Low settings 139.6 FPS 121.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 13 %

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 G3258 Core i3-540
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 110.5 FPS 106.2 FPS
High settings 176.8 FPS 169.9 FPS
Medium settings 221.1 FPS 212.4 FPS
Low settings 276.3 FPS 265.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 3.9 %
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