Intel Core i5-2300 vs Intel Celeron G6900

Core i5-2300 vs Celeron G6900 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Celeron G6900 beats the Core i5-2300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-2300 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Celeron G6900 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron G6900. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Celeron G6900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2300. The Celeron G6900 outputs less heat than Core i5-2300 thanks to a significantly 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. For instance, the Core i5-2300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.