Overclockable Pentium Anniversary Edition Review: The Intel Pentium G3258
by Ian Cutress on July 14, 2014 10:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- Pentium
- Overclocking
- Pentium-AE
- G3258
Gaming and Synthetics on Processor Graphics
The Haswell Pentium and Celeron ranges are filled with GT1 solutions, referred to as simply 'HD (Haswell)'. The same is true for Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge, although with Haswell the i3 CPU range upgraded to HD 4400 or HD 4600 - a significant leap in performance. As the graphics power is low for full 3D titles, and as such we test on lower frequencies, we might see the CPU power matter more here than with our Devil's Canyon review.
F1 2013
Bioshock Infinite
Tomb Raider
Sleeping Dogs
Company of Heroes 2
CompuBench 1.5
CompuBench is a new addition to our CPU benchmark suite, and as such we have only tested it on the following processors. The software uses OpenCL commands to process parallel information for a range of tests, and we use the flow management and particle simulation benchmarks here.
3DMark Fire Strike
The increase in speed due to overclocking only has one effect on gaming using the internal graphics - a slight advantage to minimum frame rates. Unfortunately the IGP is crippled too much to see any gain in performance for average frame rates and AMD APUs at similar power outputs have up to a 2x advantage.
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Computer Bottleneck - Monday, July 14, 2014 - link
Regarding cooling at slightly slower OC Pentium G3258 speeds, please read this Anandtech thread:http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=23910...
Also for Non-Z overclocking Pentium G3258, please see this thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=23899...
xrror - Monday, July 14, 2014 - link
You will never see an i3-K from Intel because that would actually be popular/useful enough for the "average buyer" to seriously consider one.OR IF Intel did release one, it would be (over)priced to be so close to an i5 that you wouldn't bother with the "risk" of clocking one.
I would absolutely love to be proven wrong mind you, but yea. Pentium-AE is so crippled it's painfully cynical.
boozed - Monday, July 14, 2014 - link
"Aside from the awkward/inaccurate scaling on the slide shown"I call it either deliberately misleading or absolutely ridiculous. They should know better.
Spoelie - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - link
So all benchmarks were run at 1333 memory speed? Was it not possible to reach a higher speed?It seems that at least for some benchmarks, it would've made quite the difference. Anyone bothering to overclock this one will want to overclock the memory as well.
Torpe - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - link
Hello Ian. Do you have any Quick Sync data on this CPU? I'm looking at upgrading from my E8400@3.6, which does everything I need well except compress Blu-Ray in a timely manner. Thank you.jamescox - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - link
I don't think I would recommend one of these to anyone for a low-end gaming machine. With DX12 being able to take better advantage of multiple threads, the low-end for gaming probably should be 4 threads. With xbox one and ps4 both using a low single thread performance, 8 thread cpu, I would expect to see a lot more optimization aimed at 4 to 8 threads. I doubt these low-end chips have sufficient caches and other resources to effectively support multi-threading. I wonder if turning on vector extensions would use too much cache also. The vector extensions should be getting less use anyway, since almost anything that could make good use of the vector extensions would run faster on a gpu.Laststop311 - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - link
too many bottlenecks, the i5-4670k is still the gold standard for gaming performance and value.Casecutter - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - link
Oh very nice thanks!Mayuyu - Thursday, July 17, 2014 - link
I must be really unlucky. My G3258 isn't even stable at 3.7 Ghz at 1.2V. The best I can do is 3.6Ghz at 1.1V.C.C. - Sunday, July 27, 2014 - link
You are doing something wrong, or that is a defective chip. I would RMA it (if that doesn't bother your moral code like it does some people).