Intel Celeron N4020 vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

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

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Price

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$ 262.59
$ 109.95
$ 152.64 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

597 points
862 points
44% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1282 points
1899 points
48% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

432 points
611 points
41% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

416 points
587 points
41% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4.45 points
8.12 points
82% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

542 points
692 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

342 points
403 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

539 points
638 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

339 points
392 points
15% 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

1.1 GHz
3.17 GHz
187% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

6 W
983% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,060th of 1,089
987th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron N Series
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
2008 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Celeron N4020 vs Core 2 Duo E8500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Duo E8500 is faster than the Celeron N4020. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N4020 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron N4020. A Celeron N4020 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E8500 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 N4020 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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