Intel Core i5-2430M vs Intel Pentium G2120

Core i5-2430M vs Pentium G2120 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium G2120 is faster than the Core i5-2430M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2430M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-2430M has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G2120 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2430M. A Core i5-2430M CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G2120 CPU because of its 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 i5-2430M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.