The Intel Celeron and Pentium currently tend to be the ugly duckling of CPUs, they get little attention from most users, but we’ve seen how over time some of them have always stood out and resurfaced like a pretty swan meanwhile high-end processor. Today we talk about one of these processors, specifically about the performance of the Alder Lake Celeron G6900 and its mono core, which withstood the giant i9-10900K.
With a recommended retail price of around $50, the Celeron G6900 They only have two nuclei. golden cove and as usual they do without Hyper-Threading, and it has a frequency of 3.5 GHz. Seen like that, it’s an ugly duckling.
Celeron G6900 performance: David beats Goliath
Okay yes. We recognize that, we kinda made up the reference, but that’s essentially what happened. According to data obtained by Geekbench 5 and if taken as well (which recently came to light as the typical leak due to analyst negligence) the Celeron G6900 processor mounted on a motherboard ASRock Z690 Phantom Gaming 4 and with 16GB of DDR4 it scored 1,391 points and 1,408 points in single-core tests.
Thanks to the motherboard with Base Frequency Boost (BFB) this great little processor has been able to increase the frequency limit to be able to be increased up to 1 GHz, which has allowed it to reach 4.4 GHz during the tests that have been carried out on it, thus being able to obtain results as well striking.
In its same form, the processor i9-10900K (Comet Lake) averaged 1,393 points in the same single-core test. So a single-core Celeron G6900 processor Golden Cove on 4.4GHz we can say that it surpasses the Core of a Comet Lake CPU, derived from a Skylake 5.3 GHz.
Celeron G6900 vs Red Giant AMD
In the same way, if we compare the performance of the Celeron G6900 against a Ryzen 5 5600G of 4.4 GHz in single core, we will only obtain a lower difference of 5% compared to the first. Out of curiosity and getting this data from the Geekbench benchmark results themselves, if we do the comparison with the Ryzen 7 3800XT
Before you burn out and throw your processor out the window or make a keychain out of it, wait. You should be aware that we are talking about performance with a single Core at all times, it is a good way, it must be said, of comparison, but it is not correct. Whatever means and tests we pit the processors against alongside Intel and AMD, the Celeron would lose. We are talking about a dual-core processor and with less technology than a Seat 600. But even so, these processors still lack Intel Celeron look at the market – it’s still a rumor or a leak – they seem to be an option to consider, if we are looking to set up a team that does not require a large multi-process load, also with a very low cost.
