Intel Pentium G2020 vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8600

Compare Intel Pentium G 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 E8600

Price

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$ 34.99

$ 63.96 significantly less expensive

$ 98.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

934 points

8% slightly better overall score

858 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2034 points

10% slightly better gaming score

1848 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

666 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

615 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

640 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

590 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

802 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

725 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

433 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

817 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

669 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

476 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

405 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

2.9 GHz

3.33 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

55 W

18% slightly lower TDP

65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

972nd of 1,089

989th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium G Series

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

2008 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium G2020 vs Core 2 Duo E8600 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium G2020 performs better than the Core 2 Duo E8600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Duo E8600 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Duo E8600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium G2020. A Pentium G2020 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E8600 CPU because of its slightly 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 G2020 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.