i5-12450H vs Celeron M U3400

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Primary details

Comparing Celeron M U3400 and Core i5-12450H processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated722
Place by popularitynot in top-1002
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Celeron MIntel Alder Lake-P
Power efficiencyno data22.49
Architecture codenameArrandale (2010−2011)Alder Lake-H (2022)
Release date24 May 2010 (14 years ago)January 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Celeron M U3400 and Core i5-12450H 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 cores2 (Dual-core)8 (Octa-Core)
Threads212
Base clock speedno data2 GHz
Boost clock speed1.06 GHz4.4 GHz
Bus rate2500 MHzno data
L1 cacheno data80K (per core)
L2 cache512 KB1.25 MB (per core)
L3 cache2 MB12 MB (shared)
Chip lithography32 nmIntel 7 nm
Die size81+114 mm2217 mm2
Maximum core temperature105 °C100 °C
Number of transistors382+177 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Celeron M U3400 and Core i5-12450H 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
SocketBGA1288FCBGA1744
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt45 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron M U3400 and Core i5-12450H. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI-+
FMA-+
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shiftno data+
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
TSX-+
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring++
Flex Memory Access++
Fast Memory Access+no data
Deep Learning Boost-+

Security technologies

Celeron M U3400 and Core i5-12450H technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+
EDB++
Secure Keyno data+
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron M U3400 and Core i5-12450H are enumerated here.

VT-dno data+
VT-x++
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron M U3400 and Core i5-12450H. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR4, DDR5
Maximum memory sizeno data64 GB
Max memory channelsno data2

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel® UHD Graphics for 12th Gen Intel® Processors
Quick Sync Video-+
Graphics max frequencyno data1.2 GHz
Execution Unitsno data48

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Celeron M U3400 and Core i5-12450H integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data4

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Celeron M U3400 and Core i5-12450H integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

Max resolution over HDMI 1.4no data4096 x 2304 @ 60Hz
Max resolution over eDPno data4096 x 2304 @ 120Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPortno data7680 x 4320 @ 60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Celeron M U3400 and Core i5-12450H integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno data12.1
OpenGLno data4.6

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron M U3400 and Core i5-12450H.

PCIe versionno data4.0
PCI Express lanesno data20

Synthetic benchmark performance

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



Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Celeron M U3400 1205
i5-12450H 8178
+579%

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Celeron M U3400 2317
i5-12450H 35790
+1445%

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Celeron M U3400 988
i5-12450H 11439
+1058%

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Celeron M U3400 62.2
i5-12450H 7.23
+760%

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 2 8
Threads 2 12
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 45 Watt

Celeron M U3400 has 150% lower power consumption.

i5-12450H, on the other hand, has 300% more physical cores and 500% more threads.

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