Intel Core i7-7500U vs Intel Celeron N4120

Core i7-7500U vs Celeron N4120 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-7500U performs better 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 i7-7500U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7500U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Celeron N4120. The Celeron N4120 outputs less heat than Core i7-7500U 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 i7-7500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.