Intel Core i3-2350M vs Intel Pentium 2020M

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium 2000 Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Pentium 2020M

Price

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$ 36.03

$ 179.97 significantly less expensive

$ 216.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

788 points

2% slightly better overall score

766 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1594 points

1683 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

577 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

544 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

555 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

523 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.48 points

10.63 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

724 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

711 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

352 points

409 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

662 points

667 points

0.76% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

331 points

391 points

18% 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

2.3 GHz

2.4 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

Identical

35 W

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

16 GiB

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,007th of 1,089

1,013th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Pentium 2000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-2350M vs Pentium 2020M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-2350M is faster than the Pentium 2020M. Despite this, the Pentium 2020M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-2350M has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium 2020M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-2350M. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i3-2350M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.