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Intel Celeron N2920 vs Intel Core i7-6700K

Last updated: 2026-06-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 14 %

Intel Celeron N2920

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-6700K

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 12 %

Intel Celeron N2920

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-6700K

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

165

4C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

1,347

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

491

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

4,665

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

68 cb

4C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

421 cb

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

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

188

4C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

1,151

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

249 cb

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

2,059 cb

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

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

650

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

4,459

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)

Intel HD Graphics 530

442

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

32 cb

4C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

180 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

121 cb

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

888 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 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 N2920	Intel Core i7-6700K
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		Intel Core i7-4770K
Successor		Intel Core i7-7700K

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2920	Intel Core i7-6700K
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x
Frequency:	1.86 GHz	4.00 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	2.00 GHz	4.20 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	2.00 GHz	4.00 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	2.00 MB	8.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2920	Intel Core i7-6700K
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)	Intel HD Graphics 530
GPU frequency	0.31 - 0.84 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 N2920	Intel Core i7-6700K
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2920	Intel Core i7-6700K
Memory	DDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s)	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s) DDR3-1866 (29.9 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 N2920	Intel Core i7-6700K
TDP	7.5 W	91 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down	4.5 W
T. junction max.	105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2920	Intel Core i7-6700K
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	Q4/2013	Q3/2015
Release price		420 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

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Intel Celeron N2920
4C / 4T · 1.86 - 2.00 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-6700K
4C / 8T · 4.00 - 4.20 GHz

★★★★★