Pentium Gold G6600 vs Celeron N4020

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Aggregate performance score

Celeron N4020
2019
2 cores / 2 threads, 6 Watt
0.97
Pentium Gold G6600
2020
2 cores / 4 threads, 58 Watt
2.69
+177%

Pentium Gold G6600 outperforms Celeron N4020 by a whopping 177% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Celeron N4020 and Pentium Gold G6600 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking24911714
Place by popularity94not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesIntel Gemini Lakeno data
Power efficiency15.314.39
Architecture codenameGemini Lake Refresh (2019)Comet Lake (2020)
Release date4 November 2019 (5 years ago)30 April 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Celeron N4020 and Pentium Gold G6600 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 cores2 (Dual-core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads24
Base clock speed1.1 GHz4.2 GHz
Boost clock speed2.8 GHz4.2 GHz
Bus rate15 MHz8 GT/s
L1 cacheno data64K (per core)
L2 cache4 MB256K (per core)
L3 cache4 MB4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperature105 °C100 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data72 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Celeron N4020 and Pentium Gold G6600 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
SocketFCBGA1090FCLGA1200
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt58 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron N4020 and Pentium Gold G6600. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

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

Security technologies

Celeron N4020 and Pentium Gold G6600 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

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

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron N4020 and Pentium Gold G6600 are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron N4020 and Pentium Gold G6600. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4-2666
Maximum memory size8 GB128 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidthno data41.6 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
Compare
Intel UHD Graphics 600Intel UHD Graphics 630
Max video memory8 GB64 GB
Quick Sync Video++
Clear Videono data+
Clear Video HDno data+
Graphics max frequency650 MHz1.1 GHz
Execution Units12no data
InTru 3Dno data+

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Celeron N4020 and Pentium Gold G6600 integrated GPUs.

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

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Celeron N4020 and Pentium Gold G6600 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support++
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2160@30Hz4096x2160@30Hz
Max resolution over eDP4096x2160@60Hz4096x2304@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096x2160@60Hz4096x2304@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Celeron N4020 and Pentium Gold G6600 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX1212
OpenGL4.44.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron N4020 and Pentium Gold G6600.

PCIe version2.03.0
PCI Express lanes616
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 N4020 0.97
Pentium Gold G6600 2.69
+177%

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 N4020 1547
Pentium Gold G6600 4273
+176%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.97 2.69
Integrated graphics card 0.87 3.09
Recency 4 November 2019 30 April 2020
Threads 2 4
Power consumption (TDP) 6 Watt 58 Watt

Celeron N4020 has 866.7% lower power consumption.

Pentium Gold G6600, on the other hand, has a 177.3% higher aggregate performance score, 255.2% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 5 months, and 100% more threads.

The Pentium Gold G6600 is our recommended choice as it beats the Celeron N4020 in performance tests.

Be aware that Celeron N4020 is a notebook processor while Pentium Gold G6600 is a desktop one.


Should you still have questions on choice between Celeron N4020 and Pentium Gold G6600, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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