A Visibly Smart Start.
Trade up to a better-looking PC experience with the visuals you want built-in. The 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i3 processor. Visibly smart performance starts here.
As the first level of Intel's latest processor family with the visuals you want built-in, the 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i3 processor makes a fast, responsive, and visually immersive PC experience available to everyone. With the 2nd generation Intel Core i3 processor you get built-in visuals3 that offer a rich and exciting set of capabilities for a stunning and seamless visual PC experience with no additional hardware required in the PC. Also featured is Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology2, which enables each processor core to work on two tasks at the same time, giving you smart multitasking performance to move between applications quickly and without hesitation. This is where to start for visibly smart performance.
Smart performance
Visual experience
| Model Number | 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i3 2120 |
| Number of Cores | 2 |
| Number of Threads | 4 |
| Clock Speed | 3.3 GHz |
| Max Turbo Frequency | N/A |
| Intel® Smart Cache | 3 MB |
| Bus/Core Ratio | 33 |
| Instruction Set | 64-bit |
| Instruction Set Extensions | SSE4.1/4.2, AVX |
| Memory | |
| Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type) | 32 GB |
| Memory Types | DDR3-1066/1333 |
| Memory Channels | 2 |
| Max Memory Bandwidth | 21 GB/s |
| ECC Memory Support | No |
| Graphics | |
| Integrated Graphics | Yes, Intel® HD Graphics 2000 |
| Graphics Base Frequency | 850 MHz |
| Graphics Max Dynamic Frequency | 1.1 GHz |
| Intel® Quick Sync Video | Yes |
| Intel® InTRU™ 3D Technology | Yes |
| Intel® Wireless Display | No |
| Intel® Flexible Display Interface (Intel® FDI) | Yes |
| Intel® Clear Video HD Technology | Yes |
| Dual Display Capable | Yes |
| Advanced Technologies | |
| Intel® Turbo Boost Technology | No |
| Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology | Yes |
| Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x) | Yes |
| Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) | No |
| Intel® Trusted Execution Technology | No |
| AES New Instructions | No |
| Intel® 64 | Yes |
| Idle States | Yes |
| Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology | Yes |
| Thermal Monitoring Technologies | Yes |
| Intel® Fast Memory Access | Yes |
| Intel® Flex Memory Access | Yes |
| Execute Disable Bit | Yes |
| Thermal Solution | Intel Retail Boxed Fan Heatsink |
| Thermal Design Power | 65W |
| Thermal Specification | 69.1°C |
| VID Voltage Range | N/A |
| Architecture | 32 nm |
| Socket | LGA1155 |