Intel Core i3-7130U vs Intel Celeron J4125

Core i3-7130U vs Celeron J4125 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Celeron J4125 performs better than the Core i3-7130U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7130U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Celeron J4125 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-7130U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-7130U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Celeron J4125. The Celeron J4125 outputs less heat than Core i3-7130U 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 i3-7130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.