Intel Core i5-3470S vs Intel Pentium G2020

Core i5-3470S vs Pentium G2020 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3470S beats the Pentium G2020 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G2020 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-3470S has significantly more cores than the Pentium G2020. Indeed, the Core i5-3470S has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G2020. It also has more threads than the Pentium G2020. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-3470S and Pentium G2020 are identical in this regard. The Pentium G2020 outputs less heat than Core i5-3470S thanks to a slightly 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. For instance, the Core i5-3470S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.