Pentium G3250 vs Celeron M 900

Primary details

Comparing Celeron M 900 and Pentium G3250 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated2296
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data0.07
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesIntel Celeron Mno data
Power efficiencyno data2.19
Architecture codenamePenryn (2008−2011)Haswell (2013−2015)
Release date1 April 2009 (15 years ago)21 July 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$70$171

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Celeron M 900 and Pentium G3250 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)2 (Dual-core)
Threads12
Base clock speedno data3.2 GHz
Boost clock speed2.2 GHz3.2 GHz
Bus rate800 MHz5 GT/s
L1 cacheno data64 KB (per core)
L2 cache1 MB256 KB (per core)
L3 cacheno data3 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nm22 nm
Die size107 mm2177 mm2
Maximum core temperature105 °Cno data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data72 °C
Number of transistors410 Million1,400 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Celeron M 900 and Pentium G3250 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
SocketPGA478FCLGA1150
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt53 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron M 900 and Pentium G3250. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+

Security technologies

Celeron M 900 and Pentium G3250 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDBno data+
Secure Keyno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron M 900 and Pentium G3250 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron M 900 and Pentium G3250. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3
Maximum memory sizeno data32 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data21.3 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel® HD Graphics for 4th Generation Intel® Processors
Max video memoryno data1.7 GB
Quick Sync Video-+
Graphics max frequencyno data1.1 GHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Celeron M 900 and Pentium G3250 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data3
eDPno data+
DisplayPort-+
HDMI-+
DVIno data+
VGAno data+

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Celeron M 900 and Pentium G3250 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

Max resolution over HDMI 1.4no data1920x1080@60Hz
Max resolution over eDPno data2560x1600@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPortno data2560x1600@60Hz
Max resolution over VGAno data1920x1200@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Celeron M 900 and Pentium G3250 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno data11.1/12
OpenGLno data4.3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron M 900 and Pentium G3250.

PCIe versionno dataUp to 3.0
PCI Express lanesno data16

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 900 123
Pentium G3250 1991
+1519%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2009 21 July 2014
Physical cores 1 2
Threads 1 2
Chip lithography 45 nm 22 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 53 Watt

Celeron M 900 has 51.4% lower power consumption.

Pentium G3250, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and a 104.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Celeron M 900 and Pentium G3250. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Celeron M 900 is a notebook processor while Pentium G3250 is a desktop one.


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