Intel Core i7-3537U vs Intel Pentium 2020M

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium 2000 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

830 points

8% slightly better overall score

766 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1588 points

1683 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

626 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

544 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

600 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

523 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.36 points

10.63 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

874 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

711 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

436 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

409 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

968 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

667 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

484 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

391 points

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

2.00 GHz

2.4 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

17 W

105% significantly lower TDP

35 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

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

996th of 1,089

1,013th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Pentium 2000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-3537U vs Pentium 2020M comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3537U performs better than the Pentium 2020M. Despite this, the Pentium 2020M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-3537U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium 2020M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3537U. A Core i7-3537U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium 2020M 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 i7-3537U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.