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In short, we have a clear winner — Pentium G3258 outperforms the more expensive FX-8300 on the selected game parameters, and is also a better bang for your buck! The better performing Pentium G3258 is 587 days newer than the more expensive FX-8300.
Advantages of AMD FX-8300
- Can execute more multi-threaded tasks simultaneously than Intel Pentium G3258 - 8 vs 2 threads
Advantages of Intel Pentium G3258
- Performs up to 3% better in Ready or Not than FX-8300 - 240 vs 234 FPS
- Up to 56% cheaper than FX-8300 - $49.37 vs $112.02
- Up to 56% better value when playing Ready or Not than FX-8300 - $0.21 vs $0.48 per FPS
- Consumes up to 44% less energy than AMD FX-8300 - 53 vs 95 Watts
- Works without a dedicated GPU, while AMD FX-8300 doesn't have integrated graphics
Ready or Not
Resolution
1920 x 1080
Game Graphics
Epic
AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition FX-8300 3.3 GHz with 4.2 GHz Turbo Octa core Processor (FD8300WMHKBOX)
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Pentium G3258
Desktop • Jun 2nd, 2014
FPS
240
100%
Value, $/FPS
$0.21/FPS
100%
Price, $
$49.37
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FPS and Value Winner
Intel G3258 4 Pentium 3.20 GHz 3M Cache 2 Core Processor (BX80646G3258)
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TOP 5 Games
Resolution
1920 x 1080
Game Graphics
Epic
FX-8300
Desktop • Oct 23rd, 2012
Pentium G3258
Desktop • Jun 2nd, 2014
Geekbench 5 Benchmarks
AMD FX-8300 | vs | Intel Pentium G3258 |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 23rd, 2012 | Release Date | Jun 2nd, 2014 |
| FX | Collection | Pentium |
| Vishera | Codename | Haswell |
| AMD Socket AM3+ | Socket | Intel Socket 1150 |
Desktop | Segment | Desktop |
8 | Cores | 2 |
8 | Threads | 2 |
3.3 GHz | Base Clock Speed | 3.2 GHz |
| 4.2 GHz | Turbo Clock Speed | Non-Turbo |
| 95 W | TDP | 53 W |
| 32 nm | Process Size | 22 nm |
| 16.5x | Multiplier | 32.0x |
| None | Integrated Graphics | Intel HD (Haswell) |
| Yes | Overclockable | Yes |
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