Intel Core i3-7130U vs Intel Pentium 2020M

Core i3-7130U vs Pentium 2020M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium 2020M is faster than the Core i3-7130U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7130U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i3-7130U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-7130U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium 2020M. A Core i3-7130U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium 2020M CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-7130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.