Intel Core i3-2120 vs Intel Pentium G3460

Core i3-2120 vs Pentium G3460 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-2120 is faster than the Pentium G3460. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G3460 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i3-2120 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G3460 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-2120. The Pentium G3460 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.