Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Core i3-2120

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Core i3-2120 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Gold G6400 beats the Core i3-2120 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-2120 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-2120. A Pentium Gold G6400 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-2120 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. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G6400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.