Intel Celeron G3930 vs Intel Core i7-5500U

Compare Intel Celeron G Series 2 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i7 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-5500U

Price

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$ 29.00

$ 1999.00 significantly less expensive

$ 2028.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1153 points

0.35% slightly better overall score

1149 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2473 points

9% slightly better gaming score

2264 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

836 points

853 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

805 points

817 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.98 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

17.15 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1039 points

1720 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

606 points

872 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1026 points

1695 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

600 points

881 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W

15 W

239% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

300% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB

Identical

128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

Identical

0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

2 MiB

4 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

911th of 1,089

912th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron G Series

5th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Celeron G3930 vs Core i7-5500U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-5500U performs better than the Celeron G3930. Despite this, the Celeron G3930 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-5500U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Celeron G3930 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-5500U. The Core i7-5500U outputs less heat than Celeron G3930 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-5500U also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Celeron G3930 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.