Intel Core i3-2120 vs Intel Core i5-4300M

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-4300M

Price

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$ 170.00

$ 299.00 significantly less expensive

$ 469.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1307 points

1314 points

0.54% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2496 points

2638 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

989 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

972 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

949 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

937 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

14.23 points

18.96 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1073 points

1708 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

516 points

844 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1022 points

1842 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

497 points

949 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

37 W

75% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

869th of 1,089

867th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2013 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-2120 vs Core i5-4300M benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-2120 performs better than the Core i5-4300M. Despite this, the Core i5-4300M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-2120 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4300M. The Core i5-4300M outputs less heat than Core i3-2120 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-2120 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.