Intel Core i3-4160 vs Intel Pentium N4200

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium N Series 4 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

1444 points
125% significantly better overall score
641 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2813 points
125% significantly better gaming score
1245 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1081 points
127% significantly better multitasking score
475 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1038 points
128% significantly better heavy workload score
454 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.82 points
186% significantly higher Blender score
8.30 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1850 points
181% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
658 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

962 points
269% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
260 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2084 points
191% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
716 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1076 points
295% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
272 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
227% significantly higher clock speed
1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W
6 W
800% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
166% significantly more pcie lanes
6

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory
8 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

823rd of 1,089
1,048th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3
Pentium N Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Core i3-4160 vs Pentium N4200 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4160 is faster than the Pentium N4200. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium N4200 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium N4200 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-4160 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4160 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium N4200. The Pentium N4200 outputs less heat than Core i3-4160 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 i3-4160 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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