today's video is a true David versus Goliath epic showdown a battle royale
between The Mouse and the Minotaur a colossal clash between cthulu and a Care
Bear that okay yeah I'm probably selling this a little bit hard but the point of
today's video is to take a real Underdog
competitor the Intel Pentium g3258 and see how well it can compete
with Intel's top-of-the-line cor i7
5960x if we give it as much help as we
can so stay tuned for that and another upcoming CPU benchmarking
experimentation video where I'll be taking that same extreme Edition chip
that we'll be looking at here and seeing if I can manipulate it to simulate the
performance of other Intel CPUs in
benchmarks from December 13th to 20th 2014 you can save on select Intel CPUs
KN and ssds with special holiday rebates from select retailers click now to learn
more so let's take a moment to meet today's competitors in the right corner
wearing blue trunks is a core i7 5960x
an 8 core monster of a processor that's clocked at 3 GHz nominal and turbo
boosts up to 3.5 it features hyperthreading for a total of 16
processing threads it supports ddr4 memory quad Channel DE booot and is the
meanest desktop CPU on the block with the only real knock against it being the
,000 price tag and in the left corner
wearing I guess they also blue trunks is the Pentium 3258 uh anniversary edition
now Pentium processors used to be topof the line but these days Intel kind of
uses the brand on only their most budget oriented desktop CPUs with very very low
specs I mean in fact this one only features two processing cores in an era
when four is the norm no hyperthreading for better handling of multiple tasks
per core a lowly 3 . 2 GHz clock speed
and worst of all it doesn't have the ability to boost up the frequency of its
cores dynamically with turbo boost so it's stuck running at 3.2 GHz all the
time not much of a sales pitch right
yeah lus actually this thing sounds awful why are you even interested in it
well since you asked the g3258 is an
exceptional piece of hardware for two reasons one it's only 70 bucks and has
the same underlying architecture as the of Intel's Haswell CPUs including that
extreme Edition albe it with less cash and two that 3.2 GHz is a little
misleading when you can spend literally 30 seconds overclocking this bad boy to
4.5 GHz or more with 1.35 volt I was
Rock Solid stable at 4.7 GHz so with
single-threaded performance that's theoretically
25% better than what the 5960x can
achieve at stock speeds maybe some of our our tests gaming anyone won't look
so one-sided after all so let's get into
the test I ran both configurations with 16 gigs of DDR3 1866 and ddr4 2400
according to platform compatibility both of them ran an ASUS GTX 970 stxs
graphics card for all game tests and both were cooled by a Corsair h60 liquid
cooler we'll start with the gaming results all games were run at 1080p
since most gamers are still using that resolution and
frankly I was really hoping for better from the Pentium anniversary edition
even overclocked thanks to the constantly improving ability of modern
games to Leverage The 5960x is additional processing course the
pentiums higher frequency was only able to give it the upper hand in Tomb Raider
2013 but the good news here is that with the exception of Crisis 3 the Pentium
didn't bottleneck even a$ 300 plus dollar graphics card to the point where
minimum frame rates fell so drastically below that magical 60fps Mark that it
was unpleasant to play so it's not a win
for the g3258 in the conventional sense but considering that it costs less than
114th as much and delivers a passable
experience even a good experience when overclocked I can't rag on it too hard
here non-gaming results were as expected
much worse not having additional processing cores in any multi-threaded
workload like the 3D rendering results and cinebench and POV Ray and popular
compression utility 7 zip made this a blood bath so don't expect the g3258 to
perform well for tasks like video editing and remember that the point of
our test was to find out how close we could get the g3258 to the 5960x is
default speed and there's actually even Headroom on that bad boy as well so it
actually looks even closer than it is I
mean for heavy multitasking like what we did in this video where I actually tried
to create the most ridiculous scenario that I could to max out an 8e CPU more
processing cores really are needed these days with as many as possible being a
pretty nice luxury but it's conclusion
time now I guess life is rarely as simple as picking out whichever one
seems most luxurious and going with that and cost is always a factor you may have
noticed that I stealthily included the core i5
4670k on all these graphs from before
that was no accident at 240 bucks for actually the
4690k which is even slightly faster the
bang for the buck proposition looks pretty good compared to the extreme
Edition and while it doesn't deliver as much value per dollar in a lighter task
as our little you know David g3258 it also won't run into a
straightup performance wall like the Pentium did in Crisis 3 where minimum
frame rates dropped to 14 FPS making making the game an unplayable stuttery
mess so that's why most people end up with something more like a corai 5 at
the end of their shopping experience but I'd like to hear from you guys in the
comments who do you think was the big winner in today's Showdown and while you
guys give that some thought I'll tell you how you too can be a big winner join
Dollar Shave Club today at dollarshaveclub.com Linus to start
getting high quality lawnmowers delivered straight to your door once a
month which you can use to your landscaping and
wait a minute who would want a new lawn
mower every month that's not what they do Dollar Shave Club sends you high
quality razors so you can still do the Landscaping you need to do and even
shave your face as well it costs only a few dollars a month to start looking
great and feeling great and they're constantly adding new products to their
portfolio with peppermint scented butt wipes and Dr Carver shave butter and
aftershave products already available so head over to
dollarshaveclub.com to start shaving time and shaving money thanks for
watching guys like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment about the thing I asked
before who won The Showdown
Showdown bro or whatever anyway there's a link in the video description if you
want to help support us you can give us a monthly contribution buy a cool t-shirt like this one or change your
Amazon bookmark to one with our affiliate code all those things help us
out a lot thanks again for watching and as always don't forget to subscribe
he