Intel Core i3-7100 vs Intel Celeron N5105

Core i3-7100 vs Celeron N5105 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-7100 performs better than the Celeron N5105. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N5105 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Celeron N5105 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-7100 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-7100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron N5105. The Celeron N5105 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.

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 i3-7100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.