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Intel Pentium B940 vs Intel Core i5-2300

Last updated: 2026-07-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 63 %

Intel Pentium B940

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-2300

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 33 %

Intel Pentium B940

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-2300

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.00 GHz

347

4C / 4T · 3.10 GHz

526

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.00 GHz

617

4C / 4T · 2.80 GHz

1,580

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

2C / 2T · 2.00 GHz

387

4C / 4T · 3.10 GHz

651

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

2C / 2T · 2.00 GHz

739

4C / 4T · 2.80 GHz

2,199

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)

106

Intel HD Graphics 2000

106

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.00 GHz

363

4C / 4T · 2.80 GHz

1,119

More benchmarks

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 B940	Intel Core i5-2300
Family	Intel Pentium (150)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Intel Pentium 900 (10)	Intel Core i 2000 (28)
Architecture	Sandy Bridge U	Sandy Bridge S
Technology	32 nm	32 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket	PGA 988	LGA 1155
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Pentium B940	Intel Core i5-2300
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 2	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	2x	4x
Frequency:	2.00 GHz	2.80 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):		3.10 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	2.00 MB	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Pentium B940	Intel Core i5-2300
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)	Intel HD Graphics 2000
GPU frequency	0.65 - 1.10 GHz	0.85 - 1.10 GHz
CUs / Shader	6 / 48	6 / 48
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	2
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	2 GB
Technology	32 nm	32 nm
Release date	Q2/2011	Q1/2011

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Pentium B940	Intel Core i5-2300
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Pentium B940	Intel Core i5-2300
Memory	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s) DDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s)	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 16	2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	8.0 GB/s	8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Pentium B940	Intel Core i5-2300
TDP	35 W	95 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	85 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Pentium B940	Intel Core i5-2300
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	Q2/2011	Q1/2011
Release price		187 $
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 B940 is 3.5 stars (2 ratings), while Intel Core i5-2300 has received 3.6 stars (7 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Pentium B940
2C / 2T · 2.00 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-2300
4C / 4T · 2.80 - 3.10 GHz

★★★★★