Intel Core i3-2120 vs Intel Pentium G3258

Core i3-2120 vs Pentium G3258 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-2120 is faster than the Pentium G3258. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G3258 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i3-2120 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-2120 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium G3258. The Pentium G3258 outputs less heat than Core i3-2120 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.