Intel Celeron J3455 vs AMD Athlon II X2 240

Compare Intel Celeron J Series 4 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

759 points
1% slightly better overall score
750 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1421 points
1634 points
14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

577 points
7% slightly better multitasking score
535 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

554 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
514 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

784 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
519 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

256 points
292 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

745 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
511 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

252 points
299 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.5 GHz
2.8 GHz
86% significantly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,016th of 1,089
1,018th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron J Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1866
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Celeron J3455 vs Athlon II X2 240 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X2 240 performs better than the Celeron J3455. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron J3455 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Celeron J3455 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon II X2 240 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X2 240. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X2 240 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron J3455.

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 J3455 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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