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Intel Celeron N4120 vs Intel Core i5-4460

Last updated: 2026-07-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 46 %

Intel Celeron N4120

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-4460

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 47 %

Intel Celeron N4120

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-4460

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.60 GHz

362

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

1,027

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

1,076

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

3,161

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.60 GHz

165 cb

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

325 cb

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

4C / 4T · 2.60 GHz

448

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

794

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

407 cb

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

1,177 cb

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

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

1,478

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

2,722

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel UHD Graphics 600

134

Intel HD Graphics 4600

352

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.60 GHz

77 cb

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

132 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

197 cb

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

477 cb

More benchmarks

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

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 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 N4120	Intel Core i5-4460
Family	Intel Celeron (165)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Intel Celeron J4000/N4000/N5000 (11)	Intel Core i 4000 (64)
Architecture	Gemini Lake	Haswell S
Technology	14 nm	22 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket	BGA 1090	LGA 1150
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Celeron N4120	Intel Core i5-4460
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x
Frequency:	1.10 GHz	3.20 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	2.60 GHz	3.40 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	2.50 GHz	3.30 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	4.00 MB	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Celeron N4120	Intel Core i5-4460
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 600	Intel HD Graphics 4600
GPU frequency	0.20 - 0.70 GHz	0.35 - 1.10 GHz
CUs / Shader	12 / 96	20 / 160
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	2 GB
Technology	14 nm	22 nm
Release date	Q4/2017	Q2/2013

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Celeron N4120	Intel Core i5-4460
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Celeron N4120	Intel Core i5-4460
Memory	LPDDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s) DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 6	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	3.0 GB/s	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Celeron N4120	Intel Core i5-4460
TDP	6 W	84 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down	4.8 W
T. junction max.	105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Celeron N4120	Intel Core i5-4460
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, 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	Q4/2019	Q2/2014
Release price		187 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

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Intel Celeron N4120
4C / 4T · 1.10 - 2.60 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-4460
4C / 4T · 3.20 - 3.40 GHz

★★★★★