Intel Core i3-3130M vs Intel Pentium N4200

Core i3-3130M vs Pentium N4200 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-3130M beats the Pentium N4200 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium N4200 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium N4200 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-3130M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-3130M has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium N4200. The Pentium N4200 outputs less heat than Core i3-3130M thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-3130M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.