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General information Core i3-2120 Pentium E5500
Launched Q1 2011 Q2 2010
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 % 2.8 GHz 15.2 %
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 E5500
Overall Score 33526 0 % 28587 14.7 %
Future Proof 23 % 0 % 18 % 21.7 %
Benchmark Score 1263 0 % 668 47.1 %
Single Thread Score 1514.5 0 % 1130.3 25.4 %
Encrypting Data 2905 MB/s 0 % 1531.2 MB/s 47.3 %
Compressing Data 40.2 MB/s 0 % 21.9 MB/s 45.4 %
String objects sorting 6117.4 thousand/s 0 % 3078.4 thousand/s 49.7 %
Prime numbers generation 12 millions/s 0 % 4 millions/s 66.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 9463 millions/s 0 % 4752.5 millions/s 49.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 3602.6 millions/s 0 % 2902.4 millions/s 19.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i3-2120, Pentium E5500.

Average frames per second Core i3-2120 Pentium E5500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 54.4 FPS 40.1 FPS
High settings 87.0 FPS 64.2 FPS
Medium settings 108.7 FPS 80.3 FPS
Low settings 135.9 FPS 100.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 26.2 %

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 E5500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 109.6 FPS 100.9 FPS
High settings 175.4 FPS 161.5 FPS
Medium settings 219.3 FPS 201.8 FPS
Low settings 274.1 FPS 252.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 7.9 %
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