Intel Core i3-2120 vs Intel Pentium G3260

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium G Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Pentium G3260

Price

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$ 170.00

$ 49.00

$ 121.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1307 points

8% slightly better overall score

1206 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2496 points

2612 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

989 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

863 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

949 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

828 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

14.23 points

15.34 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1073 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

919 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

516 points

563 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1022 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

995 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

497 points

583 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

Identical

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

53 W

22% slightly 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

899th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-2120 vs Pentium G3260 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-2120 performs better than the Pentium G3260. Despite this, the Pentium G3260 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-2120 has more threads. Both the Core i3-2120 and Pentium G3260 have the same clock speed. The Pentium G3260 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-2120 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.