Intel Core i5-6300U vs Intel Celeron N4120

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs Intel Celeron N Series 4 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
30% slightly better overall score
821 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2091 points
32% slightly better gaming score
1583 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

801 points
30% slightly better multitasking score
616 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

769 points
30% slightly better heavy workload score
591 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.45 points
123% significantly higher Blender score
9.17 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
118% significantly higher clock speed
1.1 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

12
100% significantly more pcie lanes
6

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
998th 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
2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-6300U vs Celeron N4120 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Celeron N4120 beats the Core i5-6300U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-6300U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Celeron N4120 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-6300U. Indeed, the Celeron N4120 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-6300U. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-6300U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron N4120. The Celeron N4120 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.

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