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

For CHF2CHF2 (1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane)

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) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000937 -0.010789 -0.010789 -0.006924 -0.019182 -0.019565 -0.021406 -0.112723 -0.113086 -0.038411 -0.102127 -0.013423 -0.083054 -0.016233 -0.095284
MP4=FULL   -0.010046     -0.018493       -0.115496     -0.012448 -0.083563 -0.015236 -0.096672
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.018163           -0.104721 -0.012221 -0.082830    
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.018367           -0.105208 -0.012363 -0.083502    
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ