Pentium G3260: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium G3260 provides poor benchmark performance at 1.37% of a leader's which is a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

Summary

Intel started Pentium G3260 sales 1 January 2015. This is desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA1150 processor with a TDP of 53 Watt. It supports DDR3-1333, DDR3L-1333 memory.

Primary details

Pentium G3260 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking2251
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processor
Power efficiency2.36of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Release date1 January 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)
Threads2
Base clock speed3.3 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Bus rate5 GT/s
L3 cache3 MBof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography22 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Maximum core temperature72 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-

Compatibility

Information on Pentium G3260 compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFCLGA1150
Power consumption (TDP)53 Wattof 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Pentium G3260. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Turbo Boost Technology-
Hyper-Threading Technology-
Idle States+
Thermal Monitoring+

Security technologies

Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-
EDB+
Secure Key+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

VT-d-
VT-x+
EPT+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Pentium G3260's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3-1333, DDR3L-1333
Maximum memory size32 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth21.3 GB/sof 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124)
ECC memory support+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Pentium G3260.

Integrated graphics cardIntel® HD Graphics for 4th Generation Intel® Processors
Max video memory1.7 GB
Quick Sync Video+
Graphics max frequency1.1 GHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium G3260's integrated GPU.

Number of displays supported3
eDP+
DisplayPort+
HDMI+
DVI+
VGA+

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium G3260's integrated GPU, including resolutions over different interfaces.

Max resolution over HDMI 1.41920x1080@60Hz
Max resolution over eDP2560x1600@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPort2560x1600@60Hz
Max resolution over VGA1920x1200@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium G3260's integrated GPU, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX11.1/12
OpenGL4.3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe versionUp to 3.0of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)
PCI Express lanes16of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Pentium G3260. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Pentium G3260 1.37

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Pentium G3260 2093

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Pentium G3260 585

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Pentium G3260 1002

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Pentium G3260's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Pentium G3260 is Phenom II X4 820, which is slower by 1% and lower by 4 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Pentium G3260:

Pentium G3260 100
A6-3650 98.54

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Pentium G3260, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Pentium G3260 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 2306 configurations using Pentium G3260 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.5% (12/2306)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
0.09% (2/2306)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.09% (2/2306)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.09% (2/2306)
RX 7800 XT Radeon RX 7800 XT
0.04% (1/2306)
RTX 4060 Ti GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
0.04% (1/2306)
RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
0.04% (1/2306)
RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
0.09% (2/2306)
RTX 4060 GeForce RTX 4060
0.1% (3/2306)

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