Intel Celeron N4120 vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

Celeron N4120 vs Core 2 Duo E8500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Celeron N4120 is faster than the Core 2 Duo E8500. Despite this, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Celeron N4120 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core 2 Duo E8500 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E8500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron N4120. A Celeron N4120 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.

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 N4120 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.