Intel Core i3-540 vs Intel Pentium 2020M

Core i3-540 vs Pentium 2020M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium 2020M is faster than the Core i3-540. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-540 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-540 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-540 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium 2020M. The Pentium 2020M outputs less heat than Core i3-540 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 i3-540 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.