Pentium Gold 5405U vs Celeron N3060

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Primary details

Comparing Celeron N3060 and Pentium Gold 5405U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance rankingnot rated2087
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel CeleronIntel Pentium, Pentium Gold
Architecture codenameBraswell (2015−2016)Whiskey Lake-U (2018−2019)
Release date15 January 2016 (8 years ago)23 January 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$107$161

Detailed specifications

Celeron N3060 and Pentium Gold 5405U 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)
Threads24
Base clock speedno data2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed1.6 GHz2.3 GHz
Bus supportno data4 GT/s
L1 cacheno data128 KB
L2 cache1 MB512 KB
L3 cache0 KB2 MB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperature90 °C100 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Celeron N3060 and Pentium Gold 5405U 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 (Uniprocessor)
SocketFCBGA1170BGA1528
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron N3060 and Pentium Gold 5405U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI++
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron N3060 and Pentium Gold 5405U are enumerated here.

VT-dno data+
VT-x++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron N3060 and Pentium Gold 5405U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR3, DDR4
Maximum memory size8 GB32 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support--

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Intel HD Graphics 400 (Braswell)Intel UHD Graphics 610

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron N3060 and Pentium Gold 5405U.

PCIe version2.03.0
PCI Express lanes412

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.

Celeron N3060 664
Pentium Gold 5405U 2357
+255%

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 N3060 1267
Pentium Gold 5405U 3561
+181%

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 N3060 2397
Pentium Gold 5405U 7886
+229%

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 N3060 43.13
Pentium Gold 5405U 22.53
+91.4%

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.

Celeron N3060 1
Pentium Gold 5405U 3
+216%

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

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

Celeron N3060 73
Pentium Gold 5405U 233
+221%

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.

Celeron N3060 38
Pentium Gold 5405U 93
+144%

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark 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 loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Celeron N3060 0.44
Pentium Gold 5405U 1.06
+141%

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.

Celeron N3060 0.5
Pentium Gold 5405U 1.4
+200%

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.  

Celeron N3060 5
Pentium Gold 5405U 16
+186%

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.  

Celeron N3060 28
Pentium Gold 5405U 82
+189%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 January 2016 23 January 2019
Threads 2 4
Power consumption (TDP) 6 Watt 15 Watt

Celeron N3060 has 150% lower power consumption.

Pentium Gold 5405U, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and 100% more threads.

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