Intel Core i5-4200U vs Intel Celeron G550

Core i5-4200U vs Celeron G550 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-4200U performs better than the Celeron G550. Despite this, the Celeron G550 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-4200U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Celeron G550 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4200U. A Core i5-4200U CPU outputs less heat than a Celeron G550 CPU because of its 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. Indeed, the Core i5-4200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.