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

For CF2CCl2 (difluorodichloroethylene)

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 -0.001043 -0.015942 -0.031000 -0.010402 -0.035423 -0.035423 -0.037665 -0.173832 -0.173832 -0.069767 -0.122920 -0.021449 -0.123236 -0.025749 -0.138288
MP3=FULL         -0.033051   -0.035230       -0.122827 -0.019125 -0.119818    
MP4=FULL   -0.014835     -0.033596       -0.175648     -0.019533 -0.121665 -0.023795 -0.137379
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000317 -0.004780 -0.009282 -0.003115 -0.010535 -0.010535 -0.011193 -0.049743 -0.049743 -0.020553 -0.035414 -0.006415 -0.036143 -0.007692 -0.040397
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.033418             -0.019403 -0.121310 -0.023616 -0.137011
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.032793         -0.064656 -0.122643 -0.018907 -0.119377 -0.023020 -0.135034
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.033413           -0.123960 -0.019394 -0.121283 -0.023597 -0.136984
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