Intel Celeron M P4600: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
Summary
Intel started Celeron M P4600 sales 1 October 2010 at a recommended price of $86. This is an Arrandale architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 32 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2000 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is PGA988 processor with a TDP of 35 Watt.
It provides poor benchmark performance at 0.58% of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.
General info
Celeron M P4600 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | 2667 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | Intel Celeron M | |
| Architecture codename | Arrandale (2010−2011) | |
| Release date | 1 October 2010 (13 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $86 | of 305 (Core i7-870) |
Technical specs
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 2 (Dual-core) | |
| Threads | 2 | |
| Boost clock speed | 2 GHz | of 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Bus support | 2500 MHz | |
| L1 cache | 128 KB | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 512 KB | of 98304 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX) |
| L3 cache | 2 MB | of 768 (EPYC 7373X) |
| Chip lithography | 32 nm | of 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 81+114 mm2 | |
| Number of transistors | 382+177 Million | of 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | |
| Unlocked multiplier | No |
Compatibility
Information on Celeron M P4600 compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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.
| Socket | PGA988 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Celeron M P4600. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
| Thermal Monitoring | + |
Security technologies
Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| EDB | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| VT-x | + |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Celeron M P4600. Overall benchmark performance 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.
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.
Benchmark coverage: 20%
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.
Benchmark coverage: 19%
3DMark06 CPU
3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.
Benchmark coverage: 19%
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.
Benchmark coverage: 17%
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Relative perfomance
Overall Celeron M P4600 performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook CPUs.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Celeron M P4600 is Turion II M520, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to Celeron M P4600:
Similar processors
Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Celeron M P4600, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Celeron M P4600 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 11 configurations based on Celeron M P4600 in our database.
