Celeron 877 vs 887
Primary details
Comparing Celeron 887 and Celeron 877 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
Place in performance ranking | not rated | not rated |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
Series | Intel Celeron | Intel Celeron |
Architecture codename | Sandy Bridge (2011−2013) | Sandy Bridge (2011−2013) |
Release date | 1 October 2012 (11 years ago) | 1 December 2011 (12 years ago) |
Launch price (MSRP) | $86 | $86 |
Detailed specifications
Celeron 887 and Celeron 877 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 cores | 2 (Dual-core) | 2 (Dual-core) |
Threads | 2 | 2 |
Boost clock speed | 1.5 GHz | 1.4 GHz |
Bus support | 4 × 5 GT/s | 4 × 5 GT/s |
L1 cache | 128 KB | 128 KB |
L2 cache | 512 KB | 512 KB |
L3 cache | 2 MB | 2 MB |
Chip lithography | 32 nm | 32 nm |
Die size | 131 mm2 | 131 mm2 |
Maximum core temperature | 100 °C | 100 °C |
Number of transistors | 504 million | 504 million |
64 bit support | + | + |
Windows 11 compatibility | - | - |
Unlocked multiplier | No | No |
Compatibility
Information on Celeron 887 and Celeron 877 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 configuration | 1 (Uniprocessor) | 1 (Uniprocessor) |
Socket | BGA1023 | BGA1023 |
Power consumption (TDP) | 17 Watt | 17 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron 887 and Celeron 877. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
FMA | + | + |
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | + |
Thermal Monitoring | + | + |
Security technologies
Celeron 887 and Celeron 877 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
EDB | + | + |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron 887 and Celeron 877 are enumerated here.
VT-x | + | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron 887 and Celeron 877. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
Supported memory types | DDR3 | DDR3 |
Maximum memory size | 16 GB | 16 GB |
Max memory channels | 2 | 2 |
Maximum memory bandwidth | 21.335 GB/s | 21.335 GB/s |
ECC memory support | - | - |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
Integrated graphics card | Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) | Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron 887 and Celeron 877.
PCI Express lanes | 16 | 16 |
Synthetic benchmark performance
Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
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.
GeekBench 5 Single-Core
GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.
Pros & cons summary
Recency | 1 October 2012 | 1 December 2011 |
Celeron 887 has an age advantage of 10 months.
We couldn't decide between Celeron 887 and Celeron 877. We've got no test results to judge.
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