It’s all the time price scouring Geekbench for leaks of recent or upcoming {hardware} as testers typically overlook that Geekbench uploads scores to a leaderboard. The simply launched Intel Celeron G6900 is the child of the twelfth Gen vary, however such are the enhancements on provide from the Golden Cove P cores, this little CPU is able to matching the mighty Core i9 10900K in single threaded efficiency, albeit with some tweaking.
The Celeron G6900 is a twin core processor with simply two threads, a 3.4GHz clock, 4MB of L3 cache and a 46W TDP. It’s positively low-cost in spec and worth at simply $59 (£55, $109 AU). Some would say {that a} CPU with two threads shouldn’t exist in 2021, and we’d agree principally, however then once more, it is underneath $60 which is difficult to argue with.
A eager eyed tweeter, Benchleaks noticed the Geekbench entries (via wccftech). In keeping with the outcomes, the Celeron G6900 was paired with an ASRock Z690M Phantom Gaming 4 motherboard and 16GB of DDR4 reminiscence. You will need to word that the CPU was apparently clocked at 4.4 GHz, nicely above the inventory 3.4 GHz which is probably going a results of Asrock’s Base Frequency Increase (BFB) expertise.
[GB5 CPU] Unknown CPUCPU: Intel Celeron G6900 (2C 2T)Min/Max/Avg: 3360/3390/3385 MHzCPUID: 90675 (GenuineIntel)Scores, vs AMD 5800XSingle: 1397, -19.2percentMulti: 2565, -76.1percenthttps://t.co/zvFmPMaVRvJanuary 11, 2022
The entries present the G6900 scoring round 1400 factors within the single-core assessments. Examine this to the Core i9-10900K which delivers an primarily equivalent rating in the identical check. It’s reasonably gorgeous that an entry stage Celeron G6900 can match the flagship processor from simply two generations again. To place it one other approach, a 4.4 GHz Golden Cove core, even with a small cache is ready to match the perfect Comet Lake (or any Skylake) core.
After all, the G6900 with its two threads isn’t in the identical ballpark, league or sport because the twenty threads provided by the 10900K, so a G6900 isn’t going to be a terrific alternative on your residence video encoding duties.
Even with its wonderful ‘overclocked’ single threaded efficiency, the G6900 isn’t going to finish up in lots of gaming rigs, until minesweeper is your concept of AAA gaming. It’s very a lot entry stage, and it is destined to search out its approach into fundamental workplace or web machines. Don’t count on to see many critiques of it. What it does present is that twelfth Gen CPUs are very robust, all the way in which from the entry stage Celeron G6900 as much as the king of gaming, the i9 12900K.
