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General information Core i3-2120 Pentium E5300
Launched Q1 2011 Q2 2009
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1155 LGA775
Series Name Intel Core i3 Intel Pentium
Core Family Name Sandy Bridge Wolfdale
Clock 3.3 GHz 0 % 2.6 GHz 21.2 %
Cores 2 0 % 2 0 %
Threads 4 0 % 2 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 0 % 65 W 0 %
Lithography 32 nm 28.9 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 2 × 256 kB
1 × 2 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i3-2120 Pentium E5300
Overall Score 33526 0 % 27779 17.1 %
Future Proof 23 % 0 % 13 % 43.5 %
Benchmark Score 1263 0 % 595 52.9 %
Single Thread Score 1500.4 0 % 1037.3 30.9 %
Encrypting Data 2875.2 MB/s 0 % 1372.9 MB/s 52.3 %
Compressing Data 40.9 MB/s 0 % 20 MB/s 51 %
String objects sorting 6135.9 thousand/s 0 % 2737 thousand/s 55.4 %
Prime numbers generation 11.9 millions/s 0 % 4 millions/s 66.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 9435.6 millions/s 0 % 4010.6 millions/s 57.5 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 3612.5 millions/s 0 % 2552.6 millions/s 29.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i3-2120, Pentium E5300.

Average frames per second Core i3-2120 Pentium E5300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 54.4 FPS 38.2 FPS
High settings 87.0 FPS 61.1 FPS
Medium settings 108.7 FPS 76.4 FPS
Low settings 135.9 FPS 95.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 29.8 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V Core i3-2120 Pentium E5300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 109.6 FPS 99.5 FPS
High settings 175.3 FPS 159.1 FPS
Medium settings 219.1 FPS 198.9 FPS
Low settings 273.9 FPS 248.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 9.2 %
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