Intel Core i7-920 vs Intel Celeron G5905

Core i7-920 vs Celeron G5905 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-920 performs better than the Celeron G5905. Despite this, the Celeron G5905 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-920 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Celeron G5905 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron G5905. With our hardware info, we find that the Celeron G5905 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-920. The Celeron G5905 outputs less heat than Core i7-920 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 i7-920 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.