Intel Core i7-6600U vs Intel Celeron N4120

Core i7-6600U vs Celeron N4120 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6600U performs better than the Celeron N4120. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N4120 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Celeron N4120 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6600U. Indeed, the Celeron N4120 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-6600U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6600U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Celeron N4120. The Celeron N4120 outputs less heat than Core i7-6600U 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 i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.