Intel Pentium G2030 vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8600

Pentium G2030 vs Core 2 Duo E8600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G2030 beats the Core 2 Duo E8600 in overall performance. 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 G2030. A Pentium G2030 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Pentium G2030 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.