Intel Core i3-6100U vs Intel Celeron N4120

Core i3-6100U vs Celeron N4120 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Celeron N4120 performs better than the Core i3-6100U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-6100U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Celeron N4120 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-6100U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-6100U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron N4120. The Celeron N4120 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.

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