Intel Pentium N4200 vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

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

641 points
862 points
34% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1245 points
1899 points
52% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

475 points
611 points
28% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

454 points
587 points
29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

8.30 points
2% slightly higher Blender score
8.12 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

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

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

260 points
403 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

716 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
638 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

272 points
392 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.1 GHz
3.17 GHz
187% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

6 W
983% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,048th of 1,089
987th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium N Series
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
2008 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1866
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Pentium N4200 vs Core 2 Duo E8500 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 2 Duo E8500 performs better than the Pentium N4200. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium N4200 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium N4200 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core 2 Duo E8500 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E8500. Our comparison shows that the Core 2 Duo E8500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium N4200. A Pentium N4200 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.

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 N4200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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