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Intel Celeron N2840 vs Intel Core i7-6700

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 20 %

Intel Celeron N2840

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-6700

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 9 %

Intel Celeron N2840

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-6700

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.58 GHz

194

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

1,291

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.58 GHz

335

4C / 8T · 3.70 GHz

4,009

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.58 GHz

251

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

983

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.58 GHz

460

4C / 8T · 3.70 GHz

3,801

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)

Intel HD Graphics 530

442

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.16 GHz

184

4C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

2,094

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.58 GHz

42 cb

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

171 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.58 GHz

81 cb

4C / 8T · 3.70 GHz

816 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2840	Intel Core i7-6700
Family	Intel Celeron (165)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	Intel Celeron J1000/N2000 (17)	Intel Core i 6000 (24)
Architecture	Bay Trail	Skylake S
Technology	22 nm	14 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket	BGA 1170	LGA 1151
Predecessor
Successor		Intel Core i7-7700

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2840	Intel Core i7-6700
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 2	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	2x	4x
Frequency:	2.16 GHz	3.40 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	2.58 GHz	4.00 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	2.58 GHz	3.70 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	1.00 MB	8.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2840	Intel Core i7-6700
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)	Intel HD Graphics 530
GPU frequency	0.31 - 0.79 GHz	0.35 - 1.15 GHz
CUs / Shader	4 / 32	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	32 GB
Technology	22 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q3/2013	Q3/2015

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2840	Intel Core i7-6700
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2840	Intel Core i7-6700
Memory	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 4	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	2.0 GB/s	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2840	Intel Core i7-6700
TDP	7.5 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down	4.5 W
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2840	Intel Core i7-6700
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q2/2014	Q3/2015
Release price	107 $	350 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Celeron N2840 is 1.8 stars (36 ratings), while Intel Core i7-6700 has received 3.9 stars (84 ratings).

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Intel Celeron N2840
2C / 2T · 2.16 - 2.58 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-6700
4C / 8T · 3.40 - 4.00 GHz

★★★★★