Intel Core i3-3227U 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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$ 1186.00

$ 216.00

$ 970.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

741 points

766 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1471 points

1683 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

550 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

544 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

527 points

0.76% slightly better heavy workload score

523 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.38 points

10.63 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

778 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

711 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

335 points

409 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

643 points

667 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

301 points

391 points

29% 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

1.9 GHz

2.4 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

17 W

105% significantly lower TDP

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

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,020th 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

2013 February

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-3227U vs Pentium 2020M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium 2020M beats the Core i3-3227U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3227U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i3-3227U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium 2020M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-3227U. A Core i3-3227U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium 2020M CPU because of its 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 i3-3227U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.