Intel Core i3-530 vs Intel Pentium N4200

Core i3-530 vs Pentium N4200 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium N4200 is faster than the Core i3-530. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-530 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 i3-530 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-530 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium N4200. The Pentium N4200 outputs less heat than Core i3-530 thanks to a 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 i3-530 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.