Intel Celeron N2840 vs Intel Core i3-4020Y

Compare Intel Celeron N Series 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i3 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

395 points
589 points
49% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

858 points
1133 points
32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

283 points
443 points
56% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

272 points
424 points
55% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

291 points
781 points
168% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

171 points
337 points
97% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

298 points
882 points
195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

178 points
460 points
158% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.16 GHz
44% significantly higher clock speed
1.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

7 W
5 W
40% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

4
12
200% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

8 GiB
16 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,083rd of 1,089
1,063rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron N Series
4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Celeron N2840 vs Core i3-4020Y specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4020Y beats the Celeron N2840 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N2840 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i3-4020Y has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Celeron N2840 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-4020Y. The Core i3-4020Y outputs less heat than Celeron N2840 thanks to a slightly 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 N2840 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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