Intel Core i3-2120 vs Intel N100

Core i3-2120 vs N100 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-2120 performs better than the N100. Despite this, the N100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the N100 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-2120. Indeed, the N100 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-2120. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-2120 has a significantly higher clock speed than the N100.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-2120 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.