Intel Celeron N4020 vs Intel Core i3-3120M

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

597 points

924 points

54% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1282 points

1808 points

41% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

432 points

689 points

59% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

416 points

660 points

58% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4.45 points

13.36 points

200% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

542 points

854 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

342 points

405 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

539 points

831 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

339 points

400 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.1 GHz

2.5 GHz

127% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

6 W

483% significantly lower TDP

35 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

32 GiB

300% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,060th of 1,089

974th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron N Series

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Celeron N4020 vs Core i3-3120M comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-3120M performs better than the Celeron N4020. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N4020 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-3120M has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-3120M has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron N4020. A Celeron N4020 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-3120M CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Celeron N4020 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.