Intel Celeron J4125 vs Intel Core i3-550

Compare Intel Celeron J Series 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 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

1009 points

1048 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1942 points

1976 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

756 points

795 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

726 points

763 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.46 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

9.59 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

886 points

911 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

341 points

417 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

956 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

899 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

343 points

437 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

3.2 GHz

60% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

10 W

629% significantly lower TDP

73 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

166% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

8 GiB

38 GiB

374% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

945th of 1,089

934th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron J Series

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

2010 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Celeron J4125 vs Core i3-550 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-550 performs better than the Celeron J4125. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron J4125 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Celeron J4125 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-550 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-550 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron J4125. A Celeron J4125 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-550 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 J4125 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.