Intel Core i3-2120 vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

Core i3-2120 vs Pentium Silver J5040 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-2120 is faster than the Pentium Silver J5040. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver J5040 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium Silver J5040 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-2120 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-2120 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver J5040. The Pentium Silver J5040 outputs less heat than Core i3-2120 thanks to a significantly 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.