Pentium Gold 6500Y vs Celeron N4120

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Aggregate performance score

Celeron N4120
2019
4 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.62
Pentium Gold 6500Y
2021
2 cores / 4 threads, 5 Watt
1.97
+21.6%

Pentium Gold 6500Y outperforms Celeron N4120 by a significant 22% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Celeron N4120 and Pentium Gold 6500Y processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking20991955
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Gemini Lakeno data
Power efficiency24.6235.93
Architecture codenameGemini Lake Refresh (2019)Amber Lake-Y (2018−2021)
Release date4 November 2019 (4 years ago)1 March 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Celeron N4120 and Pentium Gold 6500Y basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads44
Base clock speed1.1 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed2.6 GHz3.4 GHz
Bus rateno data4 GT/s
L1 cacheno data128 KB
L2 cache4 MB512 KB
L3 cache4 MB4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperature105 °C100 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Celeron N4120 and Pentium Gold 6500Y compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration11
SocketFCBGA1090BGA1515
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt5 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron N4120 and Pentium Gold 6500Y. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI++
FMA-+
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shift-+
Turbo Boost Technology-2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology-+
Idle States++
Thermal Monitoring++
Flex Memory Accessno data+
Smart Response-no data
GPIO+no data
Turbo Boost Max 3.0-no data

Security technologies

Celeron N4120 and Pentium Gold 6500Y technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDB++
Secure Key++
MPX++
Identity Protection++
SGXYes with Intel® MEno data
OS Guard++
Anti-Theft-no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron N4120 and Pentium Gold 6500Y are enumerated here.

VT-d++
VT-x++
EPT++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron N4120 and Pentium Gold 6500Y. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR3
Maximum memory size8 GB16 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidthno data33.3 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
Compare
Intel UHD Graphics 600Intel UHD Graphics 615
Max video memory8 GB16 GB
Quick Sync Video++
Clear Videono data+
Clear Video HDno data+
Graphics max frequency700 MHz900 MHz
Execution Units1223

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Celeron N4120 and Pentium Gold 6500Y integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported33
eDP++
DisplayPort++
HDMI++
DVIno data+
MIPI-DSI+no data

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Celeron N4120 and Pentium Gold 6500Y integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support++
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2160@30Hz4096x2304@24Hz
Max resolution over eDP4096x2160@60Hz3840x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096x2160@60Hz3840x2160@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Celeron N4120 and Pentium Gold 6500Y integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX1212
OpenGL4.44.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron N4120 and Pentium Gold 6500Y.

PCIe version2.03.0
PCI Express lanes610
USB revision2.0/3.0no data
Total number of SATA ports2no data
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports2no data
Number of USB ports8no data
Integrated LAN-no data
UART+no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Celeron N4120 1.62
Pentium Gold 6500Y 1.97
+21.6%

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Celeron N4120 2480
Pentium Gold 6500Y 3016
+21.6%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.62 1.97
Integrated graphics card 0.87 1.98
Recency 4 November 2019 1 March 2021
Physical cores 4 2
Power consumption (TDP) 6 Watt 5 Watt

Celeron N4120 has 100% more physical cores.

Pentium Gold 6500Y, on the other hand, has a 21.6% higher aggregate performance score, 127.6% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 1 year, and 20% lower power consumption.

The Pentium Gold 6500Y is our recommended choice as it beats the Celeron N4120 in performance tests.


Should you still have questions on choice between Celeron N4120 and Pentium Gold 6500Y, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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