Intel Core i9-12900K vs Intel Celeron N4020

Core i9-12900K vs Celeron N4020 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900K performs better than the Celeron N4020. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N4020 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900K has significantly more cores than the Celeron N4020. Indeed, the Core i9-12900K has 16 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Celeron N4020. It also has more threads than the Celeron N4020. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-12900K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron N4020. The Celeron N4020 outputs less heat than Core i9-12900K 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 i9-12900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.