Intel Core i3-550 vs Intel Pentium G2120

Core i3-550 vs Pentium G2120 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-550 is faster than the Pentium G2120. Despite this, the Pentium G2120 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-550 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-550 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium G2120. The Pentium G2120 outputs less heat than Core i3-550 thanks to a slightly 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 i3-550 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.