Intel Core i5-2400S vs Intel Pentium G4520

Core i5-2400S vs Pentium G4520 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-2400S performs better than the Pentium G4520. Despite this, the Pentium G4520 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-2400S has significantly more cores than the Pentium G4520. Indeed, the Core i5-2400S has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G4520. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4520. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G4520 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2400S. The Pentium G4520 outputs less heat than Core i5-2400S 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. For instance, the Core i5-2400S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.