Intel Core i3-6100U vs Intel Celeron J3455

Core i3-6100U vs Celeron J3455 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-6100U is faster than the Celeron J3455. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron J3455 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Celeron J3455 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-6100U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-6100U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron J3455. The Celeron J3455 outputs less heat than Core i3-6100U 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 i3-6100U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.