Intel Celeron N4500 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

638 points

924 points

44% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1374 points

1808 points

31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

464 points

689 points

48% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

447 points

660 points

47% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

6.84 points

13.36 points

95% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

710 points

831 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

435 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

400 points

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

100% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,050th 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

2021 February

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4 LPDDR4x

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Celeron N4500 vs Core i3-3120M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Celeron N4500 is faster than the Core i3-3120M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3120M 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-3120M has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron N4500. A Celeron N4500 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 N4500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.