Intel Core i5-6300U vs Intel Celeron N3050

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs Intel Celeron N 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

210% significantly better overall score

344 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2091 points

186% significantly better gaming score

730 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

801 points

220% significantly better multitasking score

250 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

769 points

220% significantly better heavy workload score

240 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.45 points

636% significantly higher Blender score

2.78 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1313 points

410% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

257 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

587 points

288% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

151 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

1.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

6 W

150% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

200% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

300% significantly more supported memory

8 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

929th of 1,089

1,085th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Celeron N Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6300U vs Celeron N3050 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6300U is faster than the Celeron N3050. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N3050 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-6300U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6300U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Celeron N3050. The Celeron N3050 outputs less heat than Core i5-6300U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-6300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.