Intel Core i3-2120 vs Intel Pentium G4400

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 G4400

Price

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$ 170.00

$ 25.99

$ 144.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1307 points

4% slightly better overall score

1247 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2496 points

2702 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

989 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

892 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

949 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

855 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

14.23 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

13.46 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1073 points

1182 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

516 points

683 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1022 points

1158 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

497 points

680 points

36% 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

54 W

20% 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

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

869th of 1,089

884th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-2120 vs Pentium G4400 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-2120 performs better than the Pentium G4400. Despite this, the Pentium G4400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i3-2120 has more threads. Both the Core i3-2120 and Pentium G4400 have the same clock speed. The Pentium G4400 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.

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.