Celeron 900 vs Pentium T3400
Aggregate performance score
Pentium T3400 outperforms Celeron 900 by an impressive 62% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Primary details
Comparing Pentium T3400 and Celeron 900 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 3050 | 3215 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Power efficiency | 1.14 | 0.71 |
| Designer | Intel | Intel |
| Release date | 1 October 2008 (16 years ago) | 1 January 2009 (16 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Pentium T3400 and Celeron 900 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.
| Base clock speed | 2.16 GHz | 2.2 GHz |
| L3 cache | 1 MB L2 Cache | 1 MB L2 Cache |
| Chip lithography | 65 nm | 45 nm |
| Maximum core temperature | 100 °C | 105 °C |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | - |
| VID voltage range | 1.075V-1.175V | no data |
Compatibility
Information on Pentium T3400 and Celeron 900 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.
| Socket | PPGA478 | PGA478 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | 35 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium T3400 and Celeron 900. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | - |
| Turbo Boost Technology | - | - |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | - | - |
| Idle States | + | no data |
| Demand Based Switching | - | no data |
| FSB parity | - | no data |
Security technologies
Pentium T3400 and Celeron 900 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | - | - |
| EDB | + | + |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium T3400 and Celeron 900 are enumerated here.
| VT-x | - | - |
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.
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. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
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.
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.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 0.42 | 0.26 |
| Recency | 1 October 2008 | 1 January 2009 |
| Chip lithography | 65 nm | 45 nm |
Pentium T3400 has a 61.5% higher aggregate performance score.
Celeron 900, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 months, and a 44.4% more advanced lithography process.
The Intel Pentium T3400 is our recommended choice as it beats the Intel Celeron 900 in performance tests.
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