Intel Celeron N4100 vs Intel Core i5-2500

Compare Intel Celeron N Series 4 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

797 points

1975 points

147% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1474 points

3663 points

148% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

609 points

1502 points

146% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

584 points

1441 points

146% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.25 points

26.26 points

114% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

775 points

1687 points

117% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

311 points

571 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

821 points

1692 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

308 points

592 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.1 GHz

3.3 GHz

200% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

6 W

1483% significantly lower TDP

95 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

1,005th of 1,089

725th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron N Series

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2011 February

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 N4100 vs Core i5-2500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2500 is faster than the Celeron N4100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N4100 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Celeron N4100. A Celeron N4100 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-2500 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 N4100 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.