Intel Core i5-8279U vs Intel Celeron N5105

Core i5-8279U vs Celeron N5105 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8279U beats the Celeron N5105 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N5105 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-8279U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8279U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron N5105. The Celeron N5105 outputs less heat than Core i5-8279U 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 i5-8279U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.