Pentium B960 vs Celeron M U3400

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Aggregate performance score

Celeron M U3400
2010
2 cores / 2 threads, 18 Watt
0.29
Pentium B960
2011
2 cores / 2 threads, 35 Watt
0.62
+114%

Pentium B960 outperforms Celeron M U3400 by a whopping 114% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Contents

Celeron M U3400 Celeron M U3400
Pentium B960 Pentium B960

Primary details

Comparing Celeron M U3400 and Pentium B960 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking31062778
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Celeron MIntel Pentium
Power efficiency1.521.68
Architecture codenameArrandale (2010−2011)Sandy Bridge (2011−2013)
Release date24 May 2010 (14 years ago)3 October 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$134

Detailed specifications

Celeron M U3400 and Pentium B960 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)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Base clock speedno data2.2 GHz
Boost clock speed1.06 GHz2.2 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 2.0
Bus rate2500 MHz4 × 5 GT/s
Multiplierno data22
L1 cacheno data128 KB
L2 cache512 KB512 KB
L3 cache2 MB2 MB (shared)
Chip lithography32 nm32 nm
Die size81+114 mm2131 mm2
Maximum core temperature105 °C85 °C
Number of transistors382+177 Million504 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Celeron M U3400 and Pentium B960 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 configurationno data1 (Uniprocessor)
SocketBGA1288FCPGA988,PGA988
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron M U3400 and Pentium B960. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
FMA-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
My WiFino data-
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle States++
Thermal Monitoring++
Flex Memory Access++
Demand Based Switchingno data-
FDIno data+
Fast Memory Access++

Security technologies

Celeron M U3400 and Pentium B960 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDB++
Anti-Theftno data-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron M U3400 and Pentium B960 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-x+-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron M U3400 and Pentium B960. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR3
Maximum memory sizeno data16 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data21.335 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel® HD Graphics for 2nd Generation Intel® Processors
Graphics max frequencyno data1.1 GHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Celeron M U3400 and Pentium B960 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data2
eDPno data+
DisplayPort-+
HDMI-+
SDVOno data+
CRTno data+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron M U3400 and Pentium B960.

PCIe versionno data2.0
PCI Express lanesno data16

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.

Celeron M U3400 0.29
Pentium B960 0.62
+114%

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.

Celeron M U3400 1205
Pentium B960 2851
+137%

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.

Celeron M U3400 2317
Pentium B960 5500
+137%

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.

Celeron M U3400 988
Pentium B960 2231
+126%

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.

Celeron M U3400 62.2
Pentium B960 33.48
+85.8%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score 0.29 0.62
Recency 24 May 2010 3 October 2011
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 35 Watt

Celeron M U3400 has 94.4% lower power consumption.

Pentium B960, on the other hand, has a 113.8% higher aggregate performance score, and an age advantage of 1 year.

The Pentium B960 is our recommended choice as it beats the Celeron M U3400 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Celeron M U3400 and Pentium B960, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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