Pentium N3540: specs and benchmarks

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Pentium N3540
2014
4 cores / 4 threads, 7.5 Watt
0.76

Pentium N3540 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.76% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

Intel started Pentium N3540 sales 22 May 2014 at a recommended price of $251. This is a Bay Trail-M architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 22 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2660 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCBGA1170 processor with a TDP of 7.5 Watt. It supports DDR3L-1333 memory.

Primary details

Pentium N3540 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking2661
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentLaptop
SeriesIntel Pentium
Power efficiency9.59of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameBay Trail-M (2013−2014)
Release date22 May 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$251of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L)

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)
Threads4
Base clock speed2.16 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed2.66 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache224 KBof 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache2 MBof 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache2 MB L2 Cacheof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography22 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Maximum core temperature100 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-

Compatibility

Information on Pentium N3540 compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFCBGA1170
Power consumption (TDP)7.5 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Pentium N3540. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Turbo Boost Technology-
Hyper-Threading Technology-
Idle States+
Smart Connect+

Security technologies

Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDB+
Secure Key+
Anti-Theft-

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

VT-d-
VT-x+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Pentium N3540's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3L-1333
Maximum memory size8 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth21.32 GB/sof 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Pentium N3540.

Integrated graphics cardIntel HD Graphics for Intel Atom Processor Z3700 Series
Quick Sync Video+
Clear Video HD-
Graphics max frequency896 MHz
InTru 3D-

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium N3540's integrated GPU.

Number of displays supported2

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium N3540's integrated GPU, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX11.2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version2.0of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)
PCI Express lanes4of 128 (EPYC 7551P)
USB revision3.0 and 2.0
Total number of SATA ports2
Number of USB ports5

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Pentium N3540. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Pentium N3540 0.76

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 N3540 1201

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Pentium N3540 192

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Pentium N3540 549

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.

Pentium N3540 1364

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.

Pentium N3540 4752

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Pentium N3540 2

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Pentium N3540 157

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Pentium N3540 42

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Pentium N3540 0.5

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Pentium N3540 0.3

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Pentium N3540 1210

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Pentium N3540 11

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Pentium N3540 54

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Pentium N3540 3254

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Pentium N3540 988

Geekbench 2

Pentium N3540 3490

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Pentium N3540's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook CPUs.


Pentium N3540 100
A6-3400M 98.68
A4-3300M 98.68

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Pentium N3540 is A6-3400M, which is slower by 1% and lower by 6 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Pentium N3540:

A6-5350M 101.32
A4-9120 101.32
Pentium N3540 100
A4-3300M 98.68
A6-3400M 98.68
A6-5357M 96.05

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Pentium N3540, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Pentium N3540 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 5527 configurations using Pentium N3540 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.6% (35/5527)
RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4080
0.02% (1/5527)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
0.02% (1/5527)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.02% (1/5527)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.1% (7/5527)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.1% (6/5527)
RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 4070
0.02% (1/5527)
RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 3090
0.04% (2/5527)
RX 7800 XT Radeon RX 7800 XT
0.02% (1/5527)

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