Intel Core i7-7820HQ vs Intel Celeron 6305

Core i7-7820HQ vs Celeron 6305 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7820HQ beats the Celeron 6305 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron 6305 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-7820HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Celeron 6305 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron 6305.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-7820HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.