Celeron N6211 vs Pentium Silver J5040

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium Silver J5040
2019
4 cores / 4 threads, 10 Watt
2.05
+45.4%
Celeron N6211
2022
2 cores / 2 threads, 6 Watt
1.41

Pentium Silver J5040 outperforms Celeron N6211 by a considerable 45% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N6211 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking19082212
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation4.103.33
Market segmentDesktop processorDesktop processor
Seriesno dataElkhart Lake
Power efficiency19.4020.53
Architecture codenameGemini Lake Refresh (2019)Elkhart Lake (2022)
Release date4 November 2019 (5 years ago)17 July 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$161$54

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Pentium Silver J5040 has 23% better value for money than Celeron N6211.

Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N6211 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads42
Base clock speed2 GHz1.2 GHz
Boost clock speed3.2 GHz3 GHz
L1 cache56 KB (per core)no data
L2 cache4 MB (shared)1.5 MB
L3 cache4 MBno data
Chip lithography14 nm10 nm
Die size93 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 °C70 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N6211 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 configuration1no data
SocketFCBGA1090BGA1493
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt6.5 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N6211. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2no data
AES-NI++
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shift-no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Smart Response-no data
GPIO+no data
Turbo Boost Max 3.0-no data

Security technologies

Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N6211 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDB+no data
Secure Key+no data
MPX+-
Identity Protection+-
SGXYes with Intel® MEno data
OS Guard+no data
Anti-Theft-no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N6211 are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N6211. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4
Maximum memory size8 GBno data
Max memory channels2no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
Compare
Intel UHD Graphics 605Intel UHD Graphics (Jasper Lake 16 EU) (250 - 750 MHz)
Max video memory8 GBno data
Quick Sync Video+-
Graphics max frequency800 MHzno data
Execution Units18no data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N6211 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported3no data
eDP+no data
DisplayPort+-
HDMI+-
MIPI-DSI+no data

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N6211 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support+no data
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2160@30Hzno data
Max resolution over eDP4096x2160@60Hzno data
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096x2160@60Hzno data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N6211 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12no data
OpenGL4.4no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N6211.

PCIe version2.0no data
PCI Express lanes6no data
USB revision2.0/3.0no data
Total number of SATA ports2no data
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports2no data
Number of USB ports8no data
Integrated LAN-no data
UART+no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score 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 Silver J5040 2.05
+45.4%
Celeron N6211 1.41

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 Silver J5040 3261
+45.3%
Celeron N6211 2245

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 Silver J5040 2688
Celeron N6211 2696
+0.3%

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 Silver J5040 8279
+76.4%
Celeron N6211 4693

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.

Pentium Silver J5040 15.29
+225%
Celeron N6211 49.66

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 Silver J5040 3
+112%
Celeron N6211 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 Silver J5040 279
+118%
Celeron N6211 128

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 Silver J5040 91
+19.7%
Celeron N6211 76

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 Silver J5040 1.09
+12.4%
Celeron N6211 0.97

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 Silver J5040 2
+104%
Celeron N6211 1

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 Silver J5040 1391
+90.3%
Celeron N6211 731

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 Silver J5040 19
+92%
Celeron N6211 10

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 Silver J5040 89
+96.9%
Celeron N6211 45

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Pentium Silver J5040 1672
+98.1%
Celeron N6211 844

Blender(-)

Pentium Silver J5040 2060
Celeron N6211 3767
+82.9%

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Pentium Silver J5040 538
Celeron N6211 556
+3.3%

7-Zip Single

Pentium Silver J5040 2833
+9.3%
Celeron N6211 2593

7-Zip

Pentium Silver J5040 8946
+125%
Celeron N6211 3974

WebXPRT 3

Pentium Silver J5040 108
+21.3%
Celeron N6211 89

WebXPRT 4 Overall

Pentium Silver J5040 80
+26.9%
Celeron N6211 63

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 2.05 1.41
Integrated graphics card 1.18 1.39
Recency 4 November 2019 17 July 2022
Physical cores 4 2
Threads 4 2
Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 6 Watt

Pentium Silver J5040 has a 45.4% higher aggregate performance score, and 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads.

Celeron N6211, on the other hand, has 17.8% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 2 years, a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

The Pentium Silver J5040 is our recommended choice as it beats the Celeron N6211 in performance tests.


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