Intel Core i5-12500 vs Intel Celeron G3930

Core i5-12500 vs Celeron G3930 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500 is faster than the Celeron G3930. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron G3930 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Celeron G3930 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron G3930. The Celeron G3930 outputs less heat than Core i5-12500 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-12500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.