Intel Pentium 2020M vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

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 E8500

Price

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$ 216.00

$ 109.95

$ 106.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

766 points

862 points

12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1683 points

1899 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

544 points

611 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

523 points

587 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.63 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

8.12 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

711 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

692 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

409 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

403 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

667 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

638 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

391 points

392 points

0.26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (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

2.4 GHz

3.17 GHz

31% 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

987th 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 E8500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Duo E8500 is faster than the Pentium 2020M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium 2020M in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium 2020M. A Pentium 2020M CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E8500 CPU because of its significantly 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. For instance, the Pentium 2020M has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.