Intel Celeron G5905 vs Intel Core i7-3540M

Compare Intel Celeron G Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-3540M

Price

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$ 73.97

$ 34.05 significantly less expensive

$ 108.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1456 points

3% slightly better overall score

1405 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3182 points

11% slightly better gaming score

2845 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1038 points

0.39% slightly better multitasking score

1034 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

996 points

0.30% slightly better heavy workload score

993 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.47 points

19.50 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1263 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1163 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

738 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

569 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

58 W

35 W

65% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

300% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

820th of 1,089

837th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron G Series

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August

2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Celeron G5905 vs Core i7-3540M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Celeron G5905 beats the Core i7-3540M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3540M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-3540M has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Celeron G5905 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3540M. The Core i7-3540M outputs less heat than Celeron G5905 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Celeron G5905 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.