Celeron J4115 vs Athlon 300U

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Aggregate performance score

Athlon 300U
2019
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
2.43
+43.8%
Celeron J4115
2019
4 cores / 4 threads, 10 Watt
1.69

Athlon 300U outperforms Celeron J4115 by a considerable 44% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Athlon 300U and Celeron J4115 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking17712061
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesAMD AthlonIntel Gemini Lake
Power efficiency15.3315.99
Architecture codenameRaven Ridge 2 (2019)Gemini Lake (2019)
Release date6 January 2019 (5 years ago)4 November 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon 300U and Celeron J4115 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads44
Base clock speed2.4 GHz1.8 GHz
Boost clock speed3.3 GHz2.5 GHz
Bus typePCIe 3.0no data
Multiplier24no data
L1 cache128K (per core)no data
L2 cache512K (per core)4 MB
L3 cache4 MB (shared)4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Die size209.78 mm2no data
Maximum core temperatureno data105 °C
Number of transistors4940 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Athlon 300U and Celeron J4115 compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1 (Uniprocessor)1
SocketFP5FCBGA1090
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt10 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon 300U and Celeron J4115. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMTIntel® SSE4.2
AES-NI++
AVX+-
vProno data-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data-
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Smart Responseno data-
GPIOno data+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-

Security technologies

Athlon 300U and Celeron J4115 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDBno data+
Secure Keyno data+
MPX-+
Identity Protection-+
SGXno dataYes with Intel® ME
OS Guardno data+
Anti-Theftno data-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon 300U and Celeron J4115 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon 300U and Celeron J4115. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4 Dual-channelDDR4
Maximum memory size64 GB8 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/sno data
ECC memory support+-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1000 MHz)Intel UHD Graphics 600
Max video memoryno data8 GB
Quick Sync Video-+
Graphics max frequencyno data750 MHz
Execution Unitsno data12

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Athlon 300U and Celeron J4115 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data3
eDPno data+
DisplayPort-+
HDMI-+
MIPI-DSIno data+

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Athlon 300U and Celeron J4115 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution supportno data+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Athlon 300U and Celeron J4115 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno data12
OpenGLno data4.4

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon 300U and Celeron J4115.

PCIe version3.02.0
PCI Express lanes126
USB revisionno data2.0/3.0
Total number of SATA portsno data2
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Portsno data2
Number of USB portsno data8
Integrated LANno data-
UARTno data+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Athlon 300U 2.43
+43.8%
Celeron J4115 1.69

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Athlon 300U 3867
+43.9%
Celeron J4115 2687

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Athlon 300U 3968
+90.1%
Celeron J4115 2087

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Athlon 300U 8724
+17.5%
Celeron J4115 7426

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Athlon 300U 15.44
+23.6%
Celeron J4115 19.09

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Athlon 300U 308
+26.2%
Celeron J4115 244

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Athlon 300U 119
+68.6%
Celeron J4115 71

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Athlon 300U 1.9
+11.8%
Celeron J4115 1.7

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Athlon 300U 1623
+34.9%
Celeron J4115 1203

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Athlon 300U 19
+5.7%
Celeron J4115 18

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Athlon 300U 89
+16.1%
Celeron J4115 76

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Athlon 300U 1840
+29.5%
Celeron J4115 1421

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Athlon 300U 867
+117%
Celeron J4115 399

WebXPRT 3

Athlon 300U 143
+75.1%
Celeron J4115 82

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 2.43 1.69
Integrated graphics card 2.98 0.87
Recency 6 January 2019 4 November 2019
Physical cores 2 4
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 10 Watt

Athlon 300U has a 43.8% higher aggregate performance score, and 242.5% faster integrated GPU.

Celeron J4115, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 months, 100% more physical cores, and 50% lower power consumption.

The Athlon 300U is our recommended choice as it beats the Celeron J4115 in performance tests.

Be aware that Athlon 300U is a notebook processor while Celeron J4115 is a desktop one.


Should you still have questions on choice between Athlon 300U and Celeron J4115, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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