Intel Core i5-650 vs Intel Pentium G2120

Compare Intel Core 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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Intel Pentium G2120

Price

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$ 66.40

$ 35.00

$ 31.40 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1013 points

1029 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2051 points

2254 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

747 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

733 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

716 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

703 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

908 points

1053 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

577 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

943 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

914 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

527 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

73 W

55 W

32% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

38 GiB

18% slightly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

943rd of 1,089

940th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-650 vs Pentium G2120 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium G2120 is faster than the Core i5-650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-650 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-650 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-650 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium G2120. The Pentium G2120 outputs less heat than Core i5-650 thanks to a slightly 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 i5-650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.