Intel Core i5-2320 vs Intel Celeron G6900

Core i5-2320 vs Celeron G6900 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2320 beats the Celeron G6900 in overall performance. Despite this, the Celeron G6900 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-2320 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Celeron G6900 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 i5-2320. The Celeron G6900 outputs less heat than Core i5-2320 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. For instance, the Core i5-2320 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.