Intel Pentium 2127U vs Intel Core i3-8109U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Pentium 2000 Intel Core i 8000U
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Core i3
• Generation
  3 8
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  1.9 GHz 3 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.6 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo 3.2 GHz

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

• DirectX Version
  11.0 12
• Execution units
  6 48
• Generation
  7 9.5
• GPU Frequency
  350 MHz 300 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1) Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655
• GPU Turbo
  1100 MHz 1050 MHz
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 32 GB
• Release date
  Q4/2012 Q4/2017
• Shader
  48 384
• Technology
  22 nm 14 nm

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

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i3-8109U and Intel Pentium 2127U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1333DDR3-1600DDR3L-1333 SO-DIMMDDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM
• PCIe lanes
  16 16
• PCIe version
  2.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium 2127U and Intel Core i3-8109U Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  90 °C -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  17 W 28 W
• TDP down
  - 20 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium 2127U and Intel Core i3-8109U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge U Coffee Lake U
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  2 MB 4 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q4/2017
• Socket
  BGA 1023 BGA 1528
• Technology
  22 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d