Pentium Gold 6405U vs Celeron N3060

Primary details

Comparing Celeron N3060 and Pentium Gold 6405U 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 Comet Lake
Architecture codename	Braswell (2015−2016)	Comet Lake-U (2019−2020)
Release date	15 January 2016 (8 years ago)	31 October 2019 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$107	$161

Detailed specifications

Celeron N3060 and Pentium Gold 6405U 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	4
Boost clock speed	1.6 GHz	2.4 GHz
L1 cache	no data	256 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	0 KB	2 MB
Chip lithography	14 nm	14 nm
Maximum core temperature	90 °C	100 °C
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on Celeron N3060 and Pentium Gold 6405U 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
Socket	FCBGA1170	FCBGA1528
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron N3060 and Pentium Gold 6405U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI	+	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	no data	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron N3060 and Pentium Gold 6405U are enumerated here.

AMD-V	no data	+
VT-x	+	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron N3060 and Pentium Gold 6405U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR3	DDR4
Maximum memory size	8 GB	no data
Maximum memory bandwidth	no data	37.5 GB/s
ECC memory support	-	-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card Compare

Intel HD Graphics 400 (Braswell)

Intel UHD Graphics 610

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron N3060 and Pentium Gold 6405U.

PCIe version	2.0	no data
PCI Express lanes	4	12

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	15 January 2016	31 October 2019
Threads	2	4
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	15 Watt

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