Intel Core i3-6006U vs Intel Core i3-2120

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-2120

Price

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$ 1249.00

$ 170.00

$ 1079.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

809 points

1307 points

61% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1584 points

2496 points

57% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

605 points

989 points

63% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

581 points

949 points

63% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.41 points

14.23 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1313 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1073 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

630 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

516 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1344 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1022 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

653 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

497 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

3.3 GHz

64% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

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

1,002nd of 1,089

869th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i3

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 November

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-6006U vs Core i3-2120 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-2120 performs better than the Core i3-6006U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-6006U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-2120 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-6006U. A Core i3-6006U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-2120 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 i3-6006U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.