Intel’s Most Entry-Level Alder Lake CPU, The Dual-Core Celeron G6900, Has Single Core Performance On Par With a 5.3 GHz Core i9-10900K

Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake lineup was recently expanded with a range of entry-level options including Pentium and Celeron CPUs. One of these chips has shown up within the Geekbench benchmark and offers some really interesting performance numbers.

As far as specifications are concerned, the Intel Celeron G6900 features two cores & two threads, based on the 10nm ESF Golden Cove core architecture. As you can tell, it's a very entry-level dual-core processor with a clock speed of up to 3.4 GHz. The CPU carries 4 MB of L3 cache and 2.5 MB L2 cache within a 46W TDP package. Being an entry-level design, the chip will cost just $42 US and could be used for entry-level eSports gaming titles and standard office workloads.

The Intel Celeron G6900 was tested on the ASRock Z690M Phantom Gaming 4 motherboard. The clock speeds were rated at 4.40 GHz which means that the user might have enabled BFB or Base Frequency Boost technology to drive up the clock speeds by +1 GHz by raising the power limit. A total of 16 GB of DDR4 memory was also featured on the platform since this motherboard only comes in DDR4 flavors.

As for performance, the Intel Celeron G6900 scored 1408 points in the single-core and 2610 points in the multi-core test. In terms of single-core performance, the 3.4-4.4 GHz CPU is faster than Intel's Core i9-10900K which has a max boost clock of 5.3 GHz (1-core). That 10 core CPU scores 1393 ST points in the same benchmark. Obviously, the Celeron is no match to the Core i9 in multi-threaded benchmarks.

The Dual-core CPU manages to be on par with a Ryzen 3 3200G, AMD FX-9370, and Core i5-4690K in multi-threaded tests which should be expected of a dual-core and non-SMT chip. The Ryzen 3 3200G is a 4 core and 4 thread 'Zen 2' part so a chip with half the core/thread count offering higher single-thread and comparable multi-thread performance is really good.

News Source: Benchleaks