Celeron M 420 vs M 450

Primary details

Comparing Celeron M 450 and Celeron M 420 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 segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesCeleron MCeleron M
Architecture codenameYonah (2005−2006)Yonah (2005−2006)
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Celeron M 450 and Celeron M 420 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 cores1 (Single-Core)1 (Single-Core)
Threads11
Base clock speed2 GHz1.6 GHz
Boost clock speed2 GHz1.6 GHz
Bus rate533 MHz533 MHz
L3 cache1 MB L2 KB1 MB L2 KB
Chip lithography65 nm65 nm
Maximum core temperature100 °C100 °C
64 bit support--
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage range1.0V-1.3V1.0V-1.3V

Compatibility

Information on Celeron M 450 and Celeron M 420 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.

SocketPPGA478PPGA478
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt27 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron M 450 and Celeron M 420. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)--
Turbo Boost Technology--
Hyper-Threading Technology--
Idle States--
Demand Based Switching--
PAE32 Bitno data
FSB parity--

Security technologies

Celeron M 450 and Celeron M 420 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT--
EDB++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron M 450 and Celeron M 420 are enumerated here.

VT-x--

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Celeron M 450 230
+65.5%
Celeron M 420 139

Pros & cons summary


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