Intel Core i5-6200U vs Intel Celeron N4120

Core i5-6200U vs Celeron N4120 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6200U is faster than the Celeron N4120. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N4120 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 i5-6200U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6200U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Celeron N4120. The Celeron N4120 outputs less heat than Core i5-6200U 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. Indeed, the Core i5-6200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.