G3258 will have problems... with far cry 4. The problems is that pentium g3258 is dual core... and dual cores sucks. Next time when you buy budget grab quad core i3 or amd athlon x4 or fx 6300.
So Penitum g3258 has same IPC as i7 - because it has same cores! it has less cache but that is not big deal. Big deal is that Games are going to be optimized for octa-quad cores so ... pentium will lagg or stutte or crash (black screen).
So i dont get people who buy pentium g3258 instead of i3 or FX 6300 ... pentium g3258 is not budget CPU for new games!
@Achmed5858 wrote:G3258 will have problems... with far cry 4. The problems is that pentium g3258 is dual core... and dual cores sucks. Next time when you buy budget grab quad core i3 or amd athlon x4 or fx 6300.
So Penitum g3258 has same IPC as i7 - because it has same cores! it has less cache but that is not big deal. Big deal is that Games are going to be optimized for octa-quad cores so ... pentium will lagg or stutte or crash (black screen).
So i dont get people who buy pentium g3258 instead of i3 or FX 6300 ... pentium g3258 is not budget CPU for new games!
You obviously don't know what you're talking about. Firstly, the i3 is not a Quad-Core; it is a hyper-threaded dual-core. This adds a miniscule performance boost in applications that use more than two threads. That is it! The Pentium G3258 without even being overclocked matches the best i3 (4360) in total performance (considering all cores and all threads) and greatly outmatches it for applications that rely on single-core performance. This is not an opinion, it is a fact. All benchmarks: theoretical and real-world point towards this. If a game can run well on an i3 it should run the same if not better on a pentium g3258, and that is even before overclocking it. After overclocking the g3258, games run comparable to how they do on mid-end i5's. Gaming will take a very long time to transition to using more than two cores because of its nature of the engines that are currently out. It is really hard to program a video game that can run its processes on multiple cores. Even these games like Far Cry 4 and Dragon Age Inquisition aren't really using more than two cores. They are just using the third core (at least in Far Cry's case) as the main core. But if you really want to know why somebody might buy an G3258 instead of an i3 or an FX 6300, I'll tell you the reason why I did? I wanted to build a new PC this year, and all of the components fit right into my ideal price and performance -range except the CPU. I needed a CPU that had enough power to play emulated Wii, PS2, and GC games. That mean the overclockable G3258 was ideal, until I can upgrade to an overclockable Quad-Core next year. I didn't want to be stuck with the FX 6300's upgrade path. I wanted an upgrade path that would give me an i5 Quad-Core, and the i3 just wasn't a better choice than the G3258, other than hyper-threading and a larger cache it was essentially the same power before I could overclock my G3258. Why would I buy a weaker CPU for more money when I just plan on upgrading when Broadwell releases anyway? The i3 doesn't have any more cores than the G3258, so you can't say these games are being optimized for more cores, they are being optimized for more threads, but honestly they aren't even being optimized - using the third thread as the main thread isn't optimizing a game for more than two threads. And in case you forgot, Quad-Cores are having the black-screen issue as well and the game runs on the tri-core XB 360.
