Intel Core i9-12900K vs Intel Celeron N4100

Core i9-12900K vs Celeron N4100 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900K is faster than the Celeron N4100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N4100 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900K has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Celeron N4100 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron N4100. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-12900K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron N4100. The Celeron N4100 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.