Intel Core i5-2450M vs Intel Pentium N4200

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium N Series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1014 points
58% significantly better overall score
641 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1935 points
55% significantly better gaming score
1245 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

766 points
61% significantly better multitasking score
475 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

735 points
61% significantly better heavy workload score
454 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

6.58 points
8.30 points
26% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

905 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
658 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

466 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
260 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

871 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
716 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
272 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
127% significantly higher clock speed
1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
6 W
483% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
166% significantly more pcie lanes
6

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
8 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

942nd of 1,089
1,048th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Pentium N Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February
2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-2450M vs Pentium N4200 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2450M is faster than the Pentium N4200. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium N4200 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium N4200 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-2450M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2450M has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium N4200. The Pentium N4200 outputs less heat than Core i5-2450M thanks to a 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 i5-2450M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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