Intel Celeron G550 vs Intel Pentium G860

Compare Intel Celeron 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium 2 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

$ 212.00
$ 70.73
$ 141.27 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

801 points
927 points
15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1755 points
1998 points
13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

570 points
666 points
16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

548 points
639 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

661 points
748 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

395 points
447 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

2
Identical
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
Identical
32 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
0.25 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

2 MiB
3 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,004th of 1,089
973rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron
Pentium

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2011 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3-1066

Celeron G550 vs Pentium G860 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium G860 is faster than the Celeron G550. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron G550 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G860 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Celeron G550. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Celeron G550 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium G860. Despite this, the Pentium G860 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Celeron G550.

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 G550 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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