Intel Core i7-4720HQ vs Intel Celeron G6900

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Celeron G 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

1830 points

4% slightly better overall score

1756 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2931 points

3730 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1511 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

1285 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1452 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

1237 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.95 points

59% significantly higher Blender score

29.36 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3071 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2809 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1035 points

1674 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.59 GHz

3.4 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

47 W

46 W

2% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

128 GiB

300% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2.5 MiB

150% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

754th of 1,089

766th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

Celeron G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-4720HQ vs Celeron G6900 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4720HQ performs better than the Celeron G6900. Despite this, the Celeron G6900 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-4720HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Celeron G6900 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron G6900. With our hardware info, we find that the Celeron G6900 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4720HQ. The Celeron G6900 outputs less heat than Core i7-4720HQ thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Celeron G6900 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4720HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4720HQ has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Celeron G6900.

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 i7-4720HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.