Intel Core i5-650 vs Intel Pentium G2120

Core i5-650 vs Pentium G2120 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-650 is faster than the Pentium G2120. 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 i5-650 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.