Intel Celeron G5905 vs Intel Core i7-975

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1456 points

1889 points

29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3182 points

5% slightly better gaming score

3014 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1038 points

1556 points

49% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

996 points

1494 points

49% significantly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1263 points

1859 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

738 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

538 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

58 W

124% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

433% significantly more supported memory

24 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

820th of 1,089

742nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron G Series

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August

2009 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Celeron G5905 vs Core i7-975 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-975 performs better than the Celeron G5905. Despite this, the Celeron G5905 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-975 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Celeron G5905 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron G5905. Our comparison shows that the Celeron G5905 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-975. A Celeron G5905 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-975 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 G5905 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.