Intel Celeron N4020 vs Intel Pentium 3556U

Compare Intel Celeron N Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium 3000 Series 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

597 points

0.34% slightly better overall score

595 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1282 points

0.08% slightly better gaming score

1281 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

432 points

0.93% slightly better multitasking score

428 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

416 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

410 points

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

542 points

690 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

342 points

368 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

539 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

509 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

339 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

304 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.1 GHz

1.7 GHz

54% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

6 W

150% significantly lower TDP

15 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

66% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

1,060th of 1,089

1,062nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron N Series

Pentium 3000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Celeron N4020 vs Pentium 3556U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Celeron N4020 is faster than the Pentium 3556U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium 3556U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium 3556U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron N4020. A Celeron N4020 CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium 3556U CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Celeron N4020 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.