Intel Pentium G2020 vs Intel Pentium N4200

Compare Intel Pentium G Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium N Series 4 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

934 points
45% significantly better overall score
641 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2034 points
63% significantly better gaming score
1245 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

666 points
40% slightly better multitasking score
475 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

640 points
40% slightly better heavy workload score
454 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.25 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
8.30 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

802 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
658 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
260 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

817 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
716 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

476 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
272 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
163% significantly higher clock speed
1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

55 W
6 W
816% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory
8 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

972nd of 1,089
1,048th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium G Series
Pentium N Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February
2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Pentium G2020 vs Pentium N4200 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G2020 beats the Pentium N4200 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium N4200 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium N4200 has significantly more cores than the Pentium G2020. Indeed, the Pentium N4200 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G2020. It also has more threads than the Pentium G2020. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G2020 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium N4200. The Pentium N4200 outputs less heat than Pentium G2020 thanks to a 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 G2020 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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