Intel Core i5-7200U vs Intel Core i3-2120

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-2120

Price

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$ 1956.00

$ 170.00

$ 1786.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1241 points

1307 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2452 points

2496 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

924 points

989 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

887 points

949 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

22.30 points

56% significantly higher Blender score

14.23 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1316 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1073 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

508 points

516 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.3 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

889th of 1,089

869th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-7200U vs Core i3-2120 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-2120 performs better than the Core i5-7200U. Despite this, the Core i5-7200U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-2120 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7200U. A Core i5-7200U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-2120 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 i5-7200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.