Intel Core i3-7100 vs Intel Celeron N4020

Core i3-7100 vs Celeron N4020 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-7100 beats the Celeron N4020 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N4020 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i3-7100 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-7100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Celeron N4020. The Celeron N4020 outputs less heat than Core i3-7100 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 i3-7100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.