Intel Core i5-7300U vs Intel Celeron N4120

Core i5-7300U vs Celeron N4120 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-7300U beats the Celeron N4120 in overall performance. Despite this, the Celeron N4120 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Celeron N4120 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-7300U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-7300U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron N4120. The Celeron N4120 outputs less heat than Core i5-7300U 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 i5-7300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.