The Intel Pentium G3258 was a desktop processor with 2 cores, launched in June 2014. It is part of the Pentium lineup, using the Haswell architecture with Socket 1150. Pentium G3258 has 3 MB of L3 cache and operates at 3.2 GHz. Intel is building the Pentium G3258 on a 22 nm production process using 960 million transistors. You may freely adjust the unlocked multiplier on Pentium G3258, which simplifies overclocking greatly, as you can easily dial in any overclocking frequency.
With a TDP of 54 W, the Pentium G3258 consumes typical power levels for a modern PC. Intel's processor supports DDR3 memory with a dual-channel interface. The highest officially supported memory speed is 1333 MT/s, but with overclocking (and the right memory modules) you can go even higher. ECC memory is supported, too, which is an important capability for mission-critical systems, to avoid data corruption. For communication with other components in the computer, Pentium G3258 uses a PCI-Express Gen 3 connection. This processor features the Intel HD (Haswell) integrated graphics solution.
Hardware virtualization is available on the Pentium G3258, which greatly improves virtual machine performance.