At the just-concluded CES, Intel completely updated the 12th generation of Core desktop processors, with a total of 28 models in the family, from the i9 to the Celeron.
Among them, the most entry-level of the whole series is the Celeron G6900, 10nm process, only dual-core dual-thread, the base frequency is 3.4GHz, does not support turbo frequency, L2 cache 2.5MB, L3 cache 4MB, thermal design power consumption 46 watts, thousand wholesale price of only 42 US dollars.
So what is the performance level of this processor?
After investigation, geekbench 5 has appeared on the CPU running score, the platform runs on the ASRock Z690M motherboard, the frequency is 4.4GHz, matching 16GB DDR4 memory.
The final single-core best score is about 1408 points, and the multi-core is about 2610. In horizontal comparison, the single core is actually comparable to the Core i9-10900K (1393 points) with a single core acceleration of up to 5.3GHz.
If you have to have a multi-core, it is probably similar to the AMD Ryzen™ 3200G, AMD FX-9370, and Core i5-4690K. Take the Ryzen™ 3 3200G as an example, four-core four-thread, Zen2 architecture.
It is worth mentioning that the same dual-core Pentium gold medal G7400 has also been sold, and it is now selling for 699 yuan.
