Intel processors from the Celeron line are usually underestimated, but in the Alder Lake line there is the Celeron G6900 whose benchmark results are quite interesting.
For information, the Celeron G6900 is a processor that costs USD 42, and is one of the Alder Lake processors that Intel recently released at CES 2022. The benchmark score of this processor has recently circulated in cyberspace.
The Celeron G6900 has two Golden Cove cores and is not equipped with Hyper Threading. Even the core is also not equipped with Intel's boost technology, which means the maximum speed is only 3.5 GHz.
Naturally, this processor is in the lowest position compared to other Alder Lake processors. However, the Golden Cove core that he uses, from the outstanding benchmark scores, cannot be taken lightly.
Based on the benchmark score on GeekBench 5, the Celeron G6900 installed on the ASRock Z690M Phantom Gaming 4 with 16GB DDR4 RAM has almost the same single core score, even slightly overtaking the Intel Core i9-10900K score, one of the fastest Intel Comet Lake variants.
The Celeron G6900 scored 1,391 and 1,408 in the single core test. While the i9-10900K recorded a score of 1,393, as quoted by us from Toms Hardware, Saturday (15/1/2022).
Whereas in terms of specifications, the Celeron G6900 is clearly nothing compared to the i9-10900K, which has 10 cores/20 threads, base clock is 3.7GHz (5.3GHz boost). Even the L3 cache capacity is far behind, 4MB vs 20MB. So is the TDP, 46W vs 125W.
This Celeron G6900 runs at a speed of 4.4GHz, because the ASRock mobo used has Base Frequency Boost technology, which increases the base clock speed of the processor used. However, the Core i9-10900K clock speed is much higher, which is 5.3GHz.
Even when compared to the processor from the red camp, namely the Ryzen 5 5600G (Zen 3 4.4GHz), the Celeron G6900 is only 5% slower. Then slightly faster than the Ryzen 7 3800XT (Zen 2 4.7GHz).
Keep in mind, this advantage only occurs in single core scores. While in multi-core testing, of course the Celeron G6900 can't compete with the processors mentioned above.
This small number of cores and threads also limits the use of the Celeron G6900 for gaming purposes. Although single-core performance is vital in games, modern games now also require the ability of more cores.