Intel Core i5-4300U vs Intel Pentium G2120

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

972 points
1029 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1897 points
2254 points
18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

726 points
733 points
0.96% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

696 points
703 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1465 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1053 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

782 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
577 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1469 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
914 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

789 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
527 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.50 GHz
3.1 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
266% significantly lower TDP
55 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

959th of 1,089
940th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5
Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i5-4300U vs Pentium G2120 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4300U is faster than the Pentium G2120. Despite this, the Pentium G2120 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-4300U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G2120 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4300U. A Core i5-4300U 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.

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 i5-4300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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