Intel Core i5-3317U vs Intel Pentium N4200

Core i5-3317U vs Pentium N4200 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3317U 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 i5-3317U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3317U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium N4200. The Pentium N4200 outputs less heat than Core i5-3317U 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 i5-3317U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.