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Energy differences between frozen core and all electrons correlated.
MP2, MP3, MP4, B2PLYP, CCSD, and CCSD(T)

For C2H6O2S (Dimethyl sulfone)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ cc-pV(T+d)Z
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.002195 -0.012626 -0.020612 -0.008484 -0.028067 -0.029221 -0.030586 -0.195203 -0.196033 -0.058244 -0.256384 -0.098554 -0.018265 -0.097565 -0.022848 -0.111118 -0.161635
MP3=FULL         -0.027005   -0.046658       -0.257371 -0.100380 -0.017031 -0.097685     -0.161923
MP4=FULL   -0.011857     -0.027232       -0.198175   -0.259819   -0.017094 -0.098604 -0.021622   -0.163689
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000671 -0.003798 -0.006202 -0.002550 -0.008342 -0.008674 -0.009080 -0.055934 -0.056183 -0.017123 -0.073864 -0.028363 -0.005447 -0.028501 -0.006816 -0.032363 -0.047145
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.027155           -0.259283   -0.017032 -0.098434 -0.021552   -0.163284
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.026737         -0.056954 -0.256825 -0.100152 -0.016722 -0.097206 -0.021187   -0.161420
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.027179           -0.259257 -0.101087 -0.017053 -0.098472 -0.021580   -0.163279
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ cc-pV(T+d)Z