Intel Core i7-2670QM vs Intel Pentium G2020

Core i7-2670QM vs Pentium G2020 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-2670QM beats the Pentium G2020 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G2020 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-2670QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium G2020 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G2020. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G2020 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2670QM. A Core i7-2670QM CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G2020 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-2670QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.