Intel Atom C2730 vs Intel Pentium G3258. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Intel Atom C2000 Intel Pentium G3000
• Family
  Intel Atom Intel Pentium
• Generation
  1 5
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  1.7 GHz 3.2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  8 2
• CPU Threads
  8 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2 GHz No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  2 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - No turbo

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  - 11.1
• Execution units
  - 10
• Generation
  - 7.5
• GPU Frequency
  - 350 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1)
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1150 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Release date
  - Q4/2012
• Shader
  - 80
• Technology
  - 22 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No Decode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium G3258 and Intel Atom C2730. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR3-1600
• PCIe lanes
  8 16
• PCIe version
  2.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Atom C2730 and Intel Pentium G3258 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  12 W 53 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Atom C2730 and Intel Pentium G3258, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Avoton Haswell S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 3 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q2/2014
• Socket
  BGA 1283 LGA 1150
• Technology
  22 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d