Celeron N2840 vs Pentium G3470

Primary details

Comparing Pentium G3470 and Celeron N2840 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2125not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataIntel Celeron
Power efficiency2.72no data
Architecture codenameno dataBay Trail-M (2013−2014)
Release date1 January 2015 (9 years ago)22 May 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium G3470 and Celeron N2840 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)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Base clock speed3.6 GHz2.16 GHz
Boost clock speedno data2.58 GHz
Bus rate5 GT/sno data
L1 cacheno data56K (per core)
L2 cacheno data512K (per core)
L3 cache3 MB0 KB
Chip lithography22 nm22 nm
Maximum core temperature72 °C100 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Pentium G3470 and Celeron N2840 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 configuration11
SocketFCLGA1150FCBGA1170
Power consumption (TDP)53 Watt7.5 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium G3470 and Celeron N2840. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Turbo Boost Technology--
Hyper-Threading Technology--
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring+-
Smart Connectno data+

Security technologies

Pentium G3470 and Celeron N2840 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB++
Secure Key++
Anti-Theftno data-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium G3470 and Celeron N2840 are enumerated here.

VT-d--
VT-x++
EPT+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium G3470 and Celeron N2840. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3-1333/1600, DDR3L-1333/1600DDR3
Maximum memory size32 GB8 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s21.32 GB/s
ECC memory support+-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardIntel® HD Graphics for 4th Generation Intel® ProcessorsIntel® HD Graphics for Intel Atom® Processor Z3700 Series
Max video memory1.7 GBno data
Quick Sync Video++
Graphics max frequency1.1 GHz792 MHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium G3470 and Celeron N2840 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported32
eDP+no data
DisplayPort+-
HDMI+-
DVI+no data
VGA+no data

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium G3470 and Celeron N2840 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

Max resolution over HDMI 1.41920x1080@60Hzno data
Max resolution over eDP2560x1600@60Hzno data
Max resolution over DisplayPort2560x1600@60Hzno data
Max resolution over VGA1920x1200@60Hzno data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium G3470 and Celeron N2840 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX11.1/12no data
OpenGL4.3no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium G3470 and Celeron N2840.

PCIe versionUp to 3.02.0
PCI Express lanes164
USB revisionno data3.0 and 2.0
Total number of SATA portsno data2
Number of USB portsno data5

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.

Pentium G3470 2428
+314%
Celeron N2840 587

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 January 2015 22 May 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 53 Watt 7 Watt

Pentium G3470 has an age advantage of 7 months.

Celeron N2840, on the other hand, has 657.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Pentium G3470 and Celeron N2840. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Pentium G3470 is a desktop processor while Celeron N2840 is a notebook one.


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