Intel Celeron G6900 pretty pants at AAA games
 

Golden Cove cores do not cut the mustard

Reviewers are starting to notice how Intel Celeron G6900 cant really handle AAA class games.


When the chip came out everyone was enthusiastically claiming that the new Celeron G6900 from Intel's 12th Generation Alder Lake family matched the Core i9-10900K (Comet Lake) in single-threaded performance.

In addition, the Geekbench benchmark results highlighted the punch of the new Golden Cove cores. However, when it came to gaming it starts to look a bit weak.

For those not in the know, the Intel Celeron G6900's specifications, has two Golden Cove cores and no Hyper-Threading. It runs at 3.4 GHz, with 4MB Smart Cache and 2.5 MB of L2 cache. The processor supports up to DDR4-3200 or DDR5-4800. Intel's UHD Graphics 710 iGPU has up to a 1.3 GHz boost and 16 EUs. This Celeron has a 46W TDP. To be fair you can pick one up for £55 so you should not expect too much, but Steve at Random Gaming in HD (RGIHD) had some rather bad experiences.

He didn’t say anything about the storage, but the GPU in the system for game testing was the Nvidia T1000, a creator-focused card with similar specifications to the GTX 1650. In a previous video, RGIHD said he picked up this T1000 as it had better availability/pricing than the gamer/consumer focused GTX 1650.

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