Intel Celeron G3930 vs Intel Core i7-860

Compare Intel Celeron G Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 29.00
$ 25.25 significantly less expensive
$ 54.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1153 points
1632 points
41% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2473 points
2607 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

836 points
1342 points
60% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

805 points
1289 points
60% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.98 points
30.74 points
71% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1039 points
1475 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

606 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
441 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1026 points
1475 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

600 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
451 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

2
8
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
3% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W
86% significantly lower TDP
95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory
16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

911th of 1,089
783rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron G Series
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Celeron G3930 vs Core i7-860 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-860 performs better than the Celeron G3930. Despite this, the Celeron G3930 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-860 has significantly more cores than the Celeron G3930. Indeed, the Core i7-860 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Celeron G3930. It also has more threads than the Celeron G3930. Our comparison shows that the Celeron G3930 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-860. A Celeron G3930 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-860 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.

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