Intel Core i3-2120 vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Core i3-2120 vs Pentium Silver N6000 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Silver N6000 performs better than the Core i3-2120. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-2120 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver N6000 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-2120 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 N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 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.