Intel Core i5-12400 vs Intel Celeron N4020

Core i5-12400 vs Celeron N4020 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12400 performs better than the Celeron N4020. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N4020 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12400 has significantly more cores than the Celeron N4020. Indeed, the Core i5-12400 has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Celeron N4020. It also has more threads than the Celeron N4020. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12400 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Celeron N4020. The Celeron N4020 outputs less heat than Core i5-12400 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 i5-12400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.