Intel Core i3-6100 vs Intel Celeron G5905

Core i3-6100 vs Celeron G5905 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-6100 beats the Celeron G5905 in overall performance. Despite this, the Celeron G5905 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i3-6100 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron G5905. A Core i3-6100 CPU outputs less heat than a Celeron G5905 CPU because of its slightly 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. Indeed, the Core i3-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.