AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Celeron N4120

A8-5600K vs Celeron N4120 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-5600K performs better than the Celeron N4120. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N4120 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Celeron N4120 has significantly more cores than the A8-5600K. Indeed, the Celeron N4120 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-5600K. But they both have the same number of threads. The Celeron N4120 outputs less heat than A8-5600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A8-5600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.