Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Celeron J4125

Core i7-8700 vs Celeron J4125 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8700 performs better than the Celeron J4125. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron J4125 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8700 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Celeron J4125 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron J4125. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron J4125. The Celeron J4125 outputs less heat than Core i7-8700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.