Intel Pentium G3250 vs Intel Core i5-2550k. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  Intel Pentium G3000 Intel Core i 2000
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Core i5
• Generation
  5 2
• 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
  3.2 GHz 3.4 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.8 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (4 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
  Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  1100 MHz No turbo
• 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
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  Decode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-2550k and Intel Pentium G3250. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  - 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1333 DDR3-1333
• PCIe lanes
  16 16
• PCIe version
  3.0 2.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium G3250 and Intel Core i5-2550k 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)
  53 W 95 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium G3250 and Intel Core i5-2550k, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Haswell S Sandy Bridge S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L3-Cache
  3 MB 6 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2014 Q1/2012
• Socket
  LGA 1150 LGA 1155
• Technology
  14 nm 32 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT