Celeron N3450 vs Pro A8-8600B

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Aggregate performance score

Pro A8-8600B
2015
4 cores / 4 threads, 12 Watt
1.38
+10.4%
Celeron N3450
2016
4 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.25

Pro A8-8600B outperforms Celeron N3450 by a moderate 10% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pro A8-8600B and Celeron N3450 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking22222297
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD CarrizoIntel Celeron
Power efficiency3.7319.72
Architecture codenameCarrizo (2015−2018)Apollo Lake (2014−2016)
Release date3 June 2015 (9 years ago)30 August 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$107

Detailed specifications

Pro A8-8600B and Celeron N3450 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)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads44
Base clock speed1.6 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed3 GHz2.2 GHz
Multiplierno data11
L2 cache2048 KB2 MB
L3 cacheno data0 KB
Chip lithography28 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperatureno data105 °C
Number of transistors3100 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Pro A8-8600B and Celeron N3450 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 (Uniprocessor)
SocketFP4FCBGA1296
Power consumption (TDP)12-35 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pro A8-8600B and Celeron N3450. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsHSA 1.0no data
AES-NI++
FMAFMA4-
AVXAVX-
FRTC+-
FreeSync+-
TrueAudio+-
PowerNow+-
PowerGating+-
Out-of-band client management+-
VirusProtect+-
RAID+-
HSA+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Smart Responseno data-
GPIOno data+
Smart Connectno data-
HD Audiono data+
RSTno data-

Security technologies

Pro A8-8600B and Celeron N3450 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+
EDBno data+
Secure Bootno data+
Secure Keyno data+
MPX-+
Identity Protection-+
OS Guardno data+
Anti-Theftno data-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pro A8-8600B and Celeron N3450 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
VT-ino data-
EPTno data+
IOMMU 2.0+-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pro A8-8600B and Celeron N3450. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3/DDR3L-2133DDR3, DDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data8 GB
Max memory channels22

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
Compare
AMD Radeon R6 GraphicsIntel HD Graphics 500
iGPU core count6no data
Number of pipelines384no data
Max video memoryno data8 GB
Quick Sync Video-+
Clear Videono data+
Clear Video HDno data+
Enduro+-
Switchable graphics+-
UVD+-
VCE+-
Graphics max frequencyno data700 MHz
Execution Unitsno data12

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pro A8-8600B and Celeron N3450 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data3
eDPno data+
DisplayPort++
HDMI++
MIPI-DSIno data+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pro A8-8600B and Celeron N3450 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXDirectX® 12+
OpenGLno data+
Vulkan+-

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pro A8-8600B and Celeron N3450.

PCIe version3.02.0
PCI Express lanesno data6
USB revisionno data2.0/3.0
Total number of SATA portsno data2
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Portsno data2
Number of USB portsno data8
Integrated LANno data-
UARTno 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.

Pro A8-8600B 1.38
+10.4%
Celeron N3450 1.25

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.

Pro A8-8600B 2190
+10.2%
Celeron N3450 1987

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.

Pro A8-8600B 440
+80.3%
Celeron N3450 244

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.

Pro A8-8600B 1011
+49.3%
Celeron N3450 677

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.

Pro A8-8600B 2111
+49.2%
Celeron N3450 1415

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.

Pro A8-8600B 5885
+48.6%
Celeron N3450 3959

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.

Pro A8-8600B 18.78
+18.8%
Celeron N3450 22.31

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.

Pro A8-8600B 2
+16.6%
Celeron N3450 2

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

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

Pro A8-8600B 181
+26.6%
Celeron N3450 143

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.

Pro A8-8600B 69
+55.1%
Celeron N3450 45

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.

Pro A8-8600B 0.81
+52.8%
Celeron N3450 0.53

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.

Pro A8-8600B 1.3
+8.3%
Celeron N3450 1.2

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.  

Pro A8-8600B 14
+12.5%
Celeron N3450 12

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.  

Pro A8-8600B 68
+16%
Celeron N3450 58

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.

Pro A8-8600B 1330
+30.4%
Celeron N3450 1020

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Pro A8-8600B 4173
+5.4%
Celeron N3450 3958

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Pro A8-8600B 1858
+54.6%
Celeron N3450 1202

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core

Pro A8-8600B 3736
Celeron N3450 3953
+5.8%

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit single-core

Pro A8-8600B 1896
+33.3%
Celeron N3450 1422

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.38 1.25
Recency 3 June 2015 30 August 2016
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 6 Watt

Pro A8-8600B has a 10.4% higher aggregate performance score.

Celeron N3450, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

The Pro A8-8600B is our recommended choice as it beats the Celeron N3450 in performance tests.


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