Intel Pentium 2020M vs Intel Core i3-10100. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Core i3
• Generation
  3 10
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium 2000 Intel Core i 10000
• Predecessor
  -- Intel Core i3-9100

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.40 GHz 3.60 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 4.30 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 8
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1) Intel UHD Graphics 630
• GPU frequency
  0.65 GHz 0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.10 GHz 1.10 GHz
• Execution units
  6 24
• Shader
  48 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 64 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  7 9.5
• DirectX Version
  11.0 12
• Technology
  22 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2012 Q4/2017

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i3-10100 and Intel Pentium 2020M. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1333DDR3-1600DDR3L-1333 SO-DIMMDDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM DDR4-2666
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 128 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  2.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16 16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium 2020M and Intel Core i3-10100 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  35 W 65 W
• Tjunction max.
  90 °C 100 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium 2020M and Intel Pentium 2020M, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 6.00 MB
• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge U Comet Lake S
• Technology
  22 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  PGA 988 LGA 1200
• Release date
  Q3/2012 Q2/2020