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Intel Pentium 2020M vs Intel Core i7-3540M

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 60 %

Intel Pentium 2020M

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-3540M

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 50 %

Intel Pentium 2020M

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-3540M

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.40 GHz

403

2C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

697

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.40 GHz

731

2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

1,502

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.40 GHz

473

2C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

751

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.40 GHz

886

2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

1,647

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1)

106

Intel HD Graphics 4000

333

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Pentium 2020M	Intel Core i7-3540M
Family	Intel Pentium (150)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	Intel Pentium 2000 (5)	Intel Core i 3000M (29)
Architecture	Ivy Bridge U	Ivy Bridge H
Technology	22 nm	22 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	PGA 988	BGA 1023
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Pentium 2020M	Intel Core i7-3540M
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 2	2 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	2x	2x
Frequency:	2.40 GHz	3.00 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):		3.70 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):
L2-Cache	0.51 MB
L3-Cache	2.00 MB	4.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Pentium 2020M	Intel Core i7-3540M
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1)	Intel HD Graphics 4000
GPU frequency	0.65 - 1.10 GHz	0.65 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	6 / 48	16 / 128
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	2 GB
Technology	22 nm	22 nm
Release date	Q4/2012	Q1/2011

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Pentium 2020M	Intel Core i7-3540M
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Pentium 2020M	Intel Core i7-3540M
Memory	DDR3L-1600 (25.6 GB/s) DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s) DDR3L-1333 (21.3 GB/s) DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)	DDR3L-1600 (25.6 GB/s) DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s) DDR3L-1333 (21.3 GB/s) DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 16	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	8.0 GB/s	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Pentium 2020M	Intel Core i7-3540M
TDP	35 W	35 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	90 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Pentium 2020M	Intel Core i7-3540M
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date	Q3/2012	Q1/2013
Release price		346 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Pentium 2020M is 2.3 stars (19 ratings), while Intel Core i7-3540M has received 3.7 stars (3 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Pentium 2020M
2C / 2T · 2.40 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-3540M
2C / 4T · 3.00 - 3.70 GHz

★★★★★