Intel Core i5-10500 vs Intel Celeron G6900

Core i5-10500 vs Celeron G6900 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-10500 performs better than the Celeron G6900. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron G6900 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-10500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Celeron G6900 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron G6900. With our hardware info, we find that the Celeron G6900 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10500. The Celeron G6900 outputs less heat than Core i5-10500 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Celeron G6900 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10500. Despite this, the Core i5-10500 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Celeron G6900.

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 i5-10500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.