Heavyweight vs Lightweight CPU Showdown - Intel i7 5960X and Pentium G3258
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,283 words · ~6 min read
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today's video is a true David versus Goliath epic showdown a battle royale
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between The Mouse and the Minotaur a colossal clash between cthulu and a Care
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Bear that okay yeah I'm probably selling this a little bit hard but the point of
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today's video is to take a real Underdog
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competitor the Intel Pentium g3258 and see how well it can compete
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with Intel's top-of-the-line cor i7
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5960x if we give it as much help as we
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can so stay tuned for that and another upcoming CPU benchmarking
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experimentation video where I'll be taking that same extreme Edition chip
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that we'll be looking at here and seeing if I can manipulate it to simulate the
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performance of other Intel CPUs in
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benchmarks from December 13th to 20th 2014 you can save on select Intel CPUs
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more so let's take a moment to meet today's competitors in the right corner
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wearing blue trunks is a core i7 5960x
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an 8 core monster of a processor that's clocked at 3 GHz nominal and turbo
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boosts up to 3.5 it features hyperthreading for a total of 16
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processing threads it supports ddr4 memory quad Channel DE booot and is the
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meanest desktop CPU on the block with the only real knock against it being the
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,000 price tag and in the left corner
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wearing I guess they also blue trunks is the Pentium 3258 uh anniversary edition
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now Pentium processors used to be topof the line but these days Intel kind of
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uses the brand on only their most budget oriented desktop CPUs with very very low
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specs I mean in fact this one only features two processing cores in an era
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when four is the norm no hyperthreading for better handling of multiple tasks
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per core a lowly 3 . 2 GHz clock speed
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and worst of all it doesn't have the ability to boost up the frequency of its
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cores dynamically with turbo boost so it's stuck running at 3.2 GHz all the
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time not much of a sales pitch right
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yeah lus actually this thing sounds awful why are you even interested in it
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well since you asked the g3258 is an
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exceptional piece of hardware for two reasons one it's only 70 bucks and has
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the same underlying architecture as the of Intel's Haswell CPUs including that
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extreme Edition albe it with less cash and two that 3.2 GHz is a little
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misleading when you can spend literally 30 seconds overclocking this bad boy to
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4.5 GHz or more with 1.35 volt I was
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Rock Solid stable at 4.7 GHz so with
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single-threaded performance that's theoretically
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25% better than what the 5960x can
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achieve at stock speeds maybe some of our our tests gaming anyone won't look
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so one-sided after all so let's get into
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the test I ran both configurations with 16 gigs of DDR3 1866 and ddr4 2400
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according to platform compatibility both of them ran an ASUS GTX 970 stxs
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graphics card for all game tests and both were cooled by a Corsair h60 liquid
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cooler we'll start with the gaming results all games were run at 1080p
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since most gamers are still using that resolution and
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frankly I was really hoping for better from the Pentium anniversary edition
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even overclocked thanks to the constantly improving ability of modern
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games to Leverage The 5960x is additional processing course the
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pentiums higher frequency was only able to give it the upper hand in Tomb Raider
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2013 but the good news here is that with the exception of Crisis 3 the Pentium
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didn't bottleneck even a$ 300 plus dollar graphics card to the point where
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minimum frame rates fell so drastically below that magical 60fps Mark that it
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was unpleasant to play so it's not a win
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for the g3258 in the conventional sense but considering that it costs less than
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114th as much and delivers a passable
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experience even a good experience when overclocked I can't rag on it too hard
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here non-gaming results were as expected
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much worse not having additional processing cores in any multi-threaded
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workload like the 3D rendering results and cinebench and POV Ray and popular
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compression utility 7 zip made this a blood bath so don't expect the g3258 to
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perform well for tasks like video editing and remember that the point of
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our test was to find out how close we could get the g3258 to the 5960x is
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default speed and there's actually even Headroom on that bad boy as well so it
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actually looks even closer than it is I
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mean for heavy multitasking like what we did in this video where I actually tried
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to create the most ridiculous scenario that I could to max out an 8e CPU more
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processing cores really are needed these days with as many as possible being a
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pretty nice luxury but it's conclusion
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time now I guess life is rarely as simple as picking out whichever one
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seems most luxurious and going with that and cost is always a factor you may have
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noticed that I stealthily included the core i5
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4670k on all these graphs from before
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that was no accident at 240 bucks for actually the
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4690k which is even slightly faster the
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bang for the buck proposition looks pretty good compared to the extreme
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Edition and while it doesn't deliver as much value per dollar in a lighter task
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as our little you know David g3258 it also won't run into a
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straightup performance wall like the Pentium did in Crisis 3 where minimum
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frame rates dropped to 14 FPS making making the game an unplayable stuttery
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mess so that's why most people end up with something more like a corai 5 at
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