Intel Core i3-12100 vs Intel Celeron G6900

Core i3-12100 vs Celeron G6900 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-12100 performs better than the Celeron G6900. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron G6900 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-12100 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Celeron G6900 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron G6900. With our hardware info, we find that the Celeron G6900 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-12100. The Celeron G6900 outputs less heat than Core i3-12100 thanks to a slightly 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. Indeed, the Core i3-12100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.