Intel Core i3-6100 vs Intel Celeron N4020

Core i3-6100 vs Celeron N4020 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-6100 beats the Celeron N4020 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N4020 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i3-6100 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-6100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Celeron N4020. The Celeron N4020 outputs less heat than Core i3-6100 thanks to a 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. Indeed, the Core i3-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.