Phoronix posted a review of the Intel Pentium G3258 running on Linux
Up for review today on Phoronix is the Pentium G3258, the new processor Intel put out in celebration of their Pentium brand turning 20 years old. This new Pentium G3258 processor costs under $100 USD and comes unlocked for offering quite a bit overclocking potential while this Pentium CPU can be used by current Intel 8 and 9 Series Chipsets. Here's our first benchmarks of the Intel Pentium G3258 using Ubuntu Linux.Intel Pentium G3258 On Linux
The Pentium G3258 is obviously Haswell based and is a dual-core processor without Hyper Threading. The integrated graphics for this 20th Anniversary Pentium CPU are the Haswell (GT1) and tops out at 1100MHz. There's just 3MB of Smart Cache on the Pentium G3258 compared to 4MB+ with the Core CPUs but at least more than the 2MB found with the current Celeron parts. Like the Celerons, the Pentium CPUs also lack support for the AVX and AES-NI instruction set extensions.
