Intel Core i3-3120M vs Intel Pentium G860

Core i3-3120M vs Pentium G860 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G860 beats the Core i3-3120M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3120M in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-3120M has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G860 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-3120M. A Core i3-3120M CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G860 CPU because of its significantly 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 i3-3120M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.