Intel Celeron N4020 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Compare Intel Celeron N Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Core (Series 1) 10 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

597 points
4342 points
627% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1282 points
7190 points
460% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

432 points
3534 points
718% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

416 points
3381 points
712% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4.45 points
85.75 points
1826% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

539 points
7114 points
1219% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

339 points
2111 points
522% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
10
400% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

2
12
499% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.1 GHz
1.4 GHz
27% slightly higher clock speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

6
20
233% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

8 GiB
96 GiB
1100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,060th of 1,089
407th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron N Series
Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR5-5200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Celeron N4020 vs Core 5 120U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 5 120U performs better than the Celeron N4020. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N4020 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores than the Celeron N4020. Indeed, the Core 5 120U has 10 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Celeron N4020. It also has more threads than the Celeron N4020. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 5 120U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Celeron N4020.

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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