Intel Celeron N4120 vs Intel Core i7-860

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

821 points

1632 points

98% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1583 points

2607 points

64% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

616 points

1342 points

117% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

591 points

1289 points

118% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.17 points

30.74 points

235% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

766 points

1475 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

318 points

451 points

41% 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

2.8 GHz

154% 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

16 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

998th of 1,089

783rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron N Series

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

2009 August

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 N4120 vs Core i7-860 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-860 beats the Celeron N4120 in overall performance. Despite this, the Celeron N4120 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-860 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-860 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Celeron N4120. A Celeron N4120 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-860 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Celeron N4120 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.