Intel Core i5-2520M vs Intel Pentium N4200

Core i5-2520M vs Pentium N4200 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-2520M performs better than the Pentium N4200. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium N4200 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium N4200 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-2520M that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-2520M has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium N4200. The Pentium N4200 outputs less heat than Core i5-2520M thanks to a 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 i5-2520M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.