Intel Core i5-3210M vs Intel Pentium G2120

Core i5-3210M vs Pentium G2120 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3210M beats the Pentium G2120 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G2120 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-3210M has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G2120 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3210M. A Core i5-3210M 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.

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 i5-3210M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.