Intel Celeron N4120 vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

Celeron N4120 vs Core 2 Duo E8400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Celeron N4120 is faster than the Core 2 Duo E8400. Despite this, the Core 2 Duo E8400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Celeron N4120 has significantly more cores than the Core 2 Duo E8400. Indeed, the Celeron N4120 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core 2 Duo E8400. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E8400. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Duo E8400 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Celeron N4120. A Celeron N4120 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E8400 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 N4120 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.