Intel Core i5-2520M vs Intel Pentium G3220

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

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Intel Pentium G3220

Price

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$ 69.00

$ 29.55 significantly less expensive

$ 98.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

979 points

1042 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1873 points

2272 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

738 points

744 points

0.81% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

708 points

714 points

0.85% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.81 points

16.22 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

915 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

883 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

462 points

499 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

929 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

890 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

467 points

527 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

54% significantly lower TDP

54 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

982nd of 1,118

961st of 1,118

Family

The product line

Core

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-2520M vs Pentium G3220 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G3220 beats the Core i5-2520M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2520M in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-2520M has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G3220 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2520M. A Core i5-2520M CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G3220 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 i5-2520M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.