Pentium G3258 vs i3 (i3 4130)

[LarsReviews]

Does the OC of the Pentium compensate the lack of HT? Which one would be better for gaming?

 

And L3 Cache 3 vs 4MB? 

 

Edit:

 

What do you thing of the Intel Core i3 4150? Is it good enought or would it be worth it to get one with 3.6 instead of 3.5Ghz and 1MB more L3 cache?

[Guest]

Get the i3 if you want to play Far Cry 4...

[Sumsar]

The i3 will be better for gaming.

 

EDIT: More cache is better

[79wjd]

Overall the i3 is the better choice. 

 

The G3258 is really just a stop-gap cpu or for use in very specific games (that are solely single threaded) 

[Guest Philosophy]

They are similar in per core performance, the i3 has hyper-threading though i3 would probably be better. 

[LarsReviews]

Get the i3 if you want to play Far Cry 4...

The i3 will be better for gaming.

 

What do you thing of the Intel Core i3 4150? Is it good enought or would it be worth it to get one with 3.6 instead of 3.5Ghz and 1MB more L3 cache?

 

 

Overall the i3 is the better choice. 

 

The G3258 is really just a stop-gap cpu or for use in very specific games (that are solely single threaded) 

 

 

What do you mean with stop-gap?

[D2ultima]

A 4.5GHz pentium would require a ~3.4GHz i3 to compete with it. So it depends on your OC of the pentium, and if the games/programs would use the hyperthreads well. As the i3 is 3.4GHz, you likely can't OC the pentium to compete well, unless a game/program does not use hyperthreading.

 

And finally, neither the pentium nor the i3 is very good for gaming.

[79wjd]

What do you thing of the Intel Core i3 4150? Is it good enought or would it be worth it to get one with 3.6 instead of 3.5Ghz and 1MB more L3 cache?

 

 

 

 

What do you mean with stop-gap?

It's a good choice when you're going to upgrade to an i5/i7 down the road (when you can afford it). 

 

I wouldn't worry about clock speeds. you won't notice a difference between a 4130 and a 4150. 

[Guest Philosophy]

 

What do you mean with stop-gap?

Typically means satisfying a need or a temporary solution. 

[tmlhalo]

This would sum it up.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8232/overclockable-pentium-anniversary-edition-review-the-intel-pentium-g3258-ae/4

[Sumsar]

What do you thing of the Intel Core i3 4150? Is it good enought or would it be worth it to get one with 3.6 instead of 3.5Ghz and 1MB more L3 cache?

 

 

 

 

What do you mean with stop-gap?

 

What's the price gap? If it's like 10€, I would go for the 4150.

[Sauron]

The i3 is better, there's no question about it. However the pentium is ok if you can't afford an i3. Do consider the athlon II 860k though, it's faster in games that use more cores such as bf4 and far cry 3/4.

[LarsReviews]

It's a good choice when you're going to upgrade to an i5/i7 down the road (when you can afford it). 

 

I wouldn't worry about clock speeds. you won't notice a difference between a 4130 and a 4150. 

 

Right now I got a i5, but want to get a 4790k when the new intel series comes out. The plan was to put the i5 into that PC then. Then price difference is only 40 Euros, that is why I started thinking of the i3.

 

 

What's the price gap? If it's like 10€, I would go for the 4150.

 

Pentium around 60 Euros, up to 70. and the i3 is 107 Euros.  

[Aniallation]

For AAA gaming, i3 any day. The HT definitely does help while the G3258 lag spikes like crazy

[IMPERIUS]

The i3 all the way. You would need a z97 mobo with an aftermarket cpu cooler to use all of the pentium k's potential which is more expensive than an i3 with a h81 mobo.

The i3 is just better because it has 4 threads and hyperthreading and more cache which is better than an oc'd 4.5ghz pentium.

[typographie]

Does the OC of the Pentium compensate the lack of HT? Which one would be better for gaming?

 

And L3 Cache 3 vs 4MB?

 

In games that do not exploit cores very well, a Pentium G3258 should perform similarly to a Core i3 of the same clock speed. In games that can scale well with up to 4 cores, the i3 is likely going to come out ahead, even if the Pentium is overclocked pretty well.

 

4 MB of cache is more (and therefore "better") than 3 MB, but CPU cache is not something you need to pay much attention to. It's better to pick a processor based on how it performs in real-world benchmarks, rather than individual, abstract technical specifications.

[zonahbear]

Get the i3.

[BlazingGunnerFTW]

The i3 wont run into a preformance wall or bottleneck issues with high end gpu's.

Plus, Pentium processors are mainly for the big budgets, not anything else. Go with the i3 unless your that desperate.

[LarsReviews]

What's the price gap? If it's like 10€, I would go for the 4150.

 

Just found a Intel Core i3-4160 for 85 Euros. It is open box, but new.

[vm'N]

For gaming, I would recommend the I3, simply because it can sustain 4 threads (basically perform like slightly crippled quad core).

This will secure the execution time of the game and the OS and other applications without causing any latencies by content-switching all the time (which gives horrible frame-latency).

[Dazza477]

My G3258 is overclocked to 4.6GHz and it's amazing, but it just flat out stutters and jumps on extremely intense games like Planetside 2 and GTA IV at extreme settings.

 

For everything else, it's perfect. You'd never know the difference

 

If it's solely gaming, I'd go for the G3258. If you want to multitask lots of little tasks, go with the i3 for the hyper threading.

 

[vembutech]

Why can't you choose i5 processor which is more better than i3 processor?