Intel Core i3-3120M vs Intel Pentium G860

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

924 points

927 points

0.32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1808 points

1998 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

689 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

666 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

660 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

639 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.36 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

10.26 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

831 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

748 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

400 points

447 points

11% 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

2.5 GHz

3 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

974th of 1,089

973rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Pentium

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

2011 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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.

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.