Pentium 4 1.6 vs Celeron 900

Primary details

Comparing Celeron 900 and Pentium 4 1.6 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
Architecture codenameno dataWillamette (2000−2001)
Release date1 January 2009 (15 years ago)August 2001 (23 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Celeron 900 and Pentium 4 1.6 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical coresno data1 (Single-Core)
Threadsno data1
Base clock speed2.2 GHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1.6 GHz
L1 cacheno data8 KB
L2 cacheno data256 KB
L3 cache1 MB L2 Cache0 KB
Chip lithography45 nm180 nm
Die sizeno data217 mm2
Maximum core temperature105 °Cno data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data75 °C
Number of transistorsno data42 million
64 bit support+-
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Celeron 900 and Pentium 4 1.6 compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configurationno data1
SocketPGA478423
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt61 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron 900 and Pentium 4 1.6. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)-no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data

Security technologies

Celeron 900 and Pentium 4 1.6 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron 900 and Pentium 4 1.6 are enumerated here.

VT-x-no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron 900 and Pentium 4 1.6. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR1, DDR2

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 45 nm 180 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 61 Watt

Celeron 900 has a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 74.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Celeron 900 and Pentium 4 1.6. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Celeron 900 is a notebook processor while Pentium 4 1.6 is a desktop one.


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Intel Celeron 900
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