Intel Core i5-6300U vs Intel Celeron 6305

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs Intel Celeron 6000 Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1069 points
52% significantly better overall score
699 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2091 points
36% slightly better gaming score
1529 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

801 points
60% significantly better multitasking score
499 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

769 points
60% significantly better heavy workload score
478 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.45 points
94% significantly higher Blender score
10.52 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
64 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

929th of 1,089
1,029th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5
Celeron 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2020 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4-3200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-6300U vs Celeron 6305 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6300U is faster than the Celeron 6305. Despite this, the Celeron 6305 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-6300U has more threads.

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 i5-6300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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