Intel Core i5-7200U vs Intel Celeron N4120

Compare Intel 7th 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

1241 points
51% significantly better overall score
821 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2452 points
54% significantly better gaming score
1583 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

924 points
49% significantly better multitasking score
616 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

887 points
50% significantly better heavy workload score
591 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

22.30 points
143% 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

2.5 GHz
127% 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

889th of 1,089
998th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5
Celeron N Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 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 i5-7200U vs Celeron N4120 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-7200U 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 i5-7200U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-7200U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron N4120. The Celeron N4120 outputs less heat than Core i5-7200U 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 i5-7200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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