Intel Pentium 2020M vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

Compare Intel Pentium 2000 Series 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 2 Duo E8400

Price

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$ 216.00

$ 23.03

$ 192.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

766 points

818 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1683 points

1767 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

544 points

586 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

523 points

563 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.63 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

10.18 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

711 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

622 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

409 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

352 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

667 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

615 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

391 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

373 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

3 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,013th of 1,089

999th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium 2000 Series

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

2008 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Pentium 2020M vs Core 2 Duo E8400 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Duo E8400 is faster 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 and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core 2 Duo E8400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium 2020M. A Pentium 2020M CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E8400 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. For instance, the Pentium 2020M has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.