Intel Core i3-3217U vs Intel Celeron E3500

Core i3-3217U vs Celeron E3500 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Celeron E3500 is faster than the Core i3-3217U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3217U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-3217U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Celeron E3500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-3217U. A Core i3-3217U CPU outputs less heat than a Celeron E3500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-3217U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.