Intel Core i3-6100U vs Intel Celeron J4125

Core i3-6100U vs Celeron J4125 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-6100U beats the Celeron J4125 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron J4125 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Celeron J4125 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-6100U that 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 slightly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron J4125. The Celeron J4125 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.

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 i3-6100U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.