Which CPU is Better i7 950 or pentium g3258 anniversary edition

Primegaming · Mar 30, 2015

I currently have both of the CPUS and i was wondering which one would run better in Far Cry 3 - 4 and Call Of Duty Advanced Warfare the GPU that i am using is the MSI GTX 970

mad2 · Mar 30, 2015

The pentium will game better. Most games won't fully use the extra cores of the i7, and the pentium has better single threaded performance.

atomicWAR · Mar 30, 2015

mad2 :

yeah not sure i can agree with that one. yes single threaded performance matters but there are plenty of games where 4 cores is equally as important (hyperthreading helps but a virtual core is still not as good as a fully functional one)...even in toms charts it shows that the i7 950 should perform better in general

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/cpu-charts-2013/-04-3DMark11,3157.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/cpu-charts-2013/-20-Crysis-II,3175.html

razvan_mz · Mar 30, 2015

if you have both, you can test it yourself and see the results. I put my money on i7 950 even if it's old. far cry 4 don't even start with dual cores.

Ironsounds · Mar 30, 2015

Hello... http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7+950+%40+3.07GHz
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+G3258+%40+3.20GHz

mad2 · Mar 30, 2015

atomicWAR :

You are very correct that the i7 will beat it out on games using all 4 cores, but most games, while using 4 cores, will only gain marginal performance on anything more that two, due to many games not being truly optimized for 4 threads. 3dmark is not the best representation of cpu performance. Benchmarking regular games will give you a more true idea of the gap between the two.

These are benchmarks of some popular games, and you can see that the pentium does quite well for itself even against much much better processors from the same gen. The 950 is 6 years old.

http://techbuyersguru.com/haswellgaming.php

You can see that there are some games, like crysis, where the extra threads help quite a bit. But then you see that games like bioshock and tomb raider show very small gains with the extra two cores. As for the games you mentioned OP, I am not sure as I do not play them. But I believe the pentium will outdue the old i7.

Edit: after looking for more benchmarks, it appears COD AW does very well multithreading. In this case, follow what atomicWAR said and stick with the i7. It will suit this usage much better.

logainofhades · Mar 30, 2015

FC4, the i7 950 would be better. The only real bonus, to the pentium, is that the platform isn't quite yet dead, so you have some upgrade options.

atomicWAR · Mar 31, 2015

mad2 :

atomicWAR :

You are very correct that the i7 will beat it out on games using all 4 cores, but most games, while using 4 cores, will only gain marginal performance on anything more that two, due to many games not being truly optimized for 4 threads. 3dmark is not the best representation of cpu performance. Benchmarking regular games will give you a more true idea of the gap between the two.

These are benchmarks of some popular games, and you can see that the pentium does quite well for itself even against much much better processors from the same gen. The 950 is 6 years old.

http://techbuyersguru.com/haswellgaming.php

You can see that there are some games, like crysis, where the extra threads help quite a bit. But then you see that games like bioshock and tomb raider show very small gains with the extra two cores. As for the games you mentioned OP, I am not sure as I do not play them. But I believe the pentium will outdue the old i7.

far cry 4 uses 4 cores as do most NEW games. so i stand by what i said the i7 950 is the better choice.

Outlander_04 · Mar 31, 2015

The i7 is way stronger cpu than the pentium which is bargain bin trash even if it is newer .

Complication is that if you were building a system there are no motherboards available for the i7

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