Intel Core i5-4300U vs Intel Celeron N4120

Core i5-4300U vs Celeron N4120 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Celeron N4120 performs better than the Core i5-4300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4300U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Celeron N4120 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-4300U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-4300U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron N4120. The Celeron N4120 outputs less heat than Core i5-4300U 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. Indeed, the Core i5-4300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.