Pentium B960 vs Celeron N4000C

Place in the ranking	2560	2792
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	no data	Intel Pentium
Power efficiency	14.05	1.68
Architecture codename	no data	Sandy Bridge (2011−2013)
Release date	1 April 2019 (5 years ago)	2 October 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$134

Detailed specifications

Celeron N4000C 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 cores	2 (Dual-core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	2
Base clock speed	1.1 GHz	2.2 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.6 GHz	2.2 GHz
Bus type	no data	DMI 2.0
Bus rate	no data	4 × 5 GT/s
Multiplier	no data	22
L1 cache	no data	64K (per core)
L2 cache	no data	256K (per core)
L3 cache	4 MB	2 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	14 nm	32 nm
Die size	no data	131 mm²
Maximum core temperature	105 deg C	85 °C
Number of transistors	no data	504 million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Celeron N4000C 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 configuration	1	1 (Uniprocessor)
Socket	FCBGA1090	FCPGA988,PGA988
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron N4000C and Pentium B960. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® SSE4.2	Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI	+	-
FMA	-	+
vPro	-	no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	+
Speed Shift	-	no data
My WiFi	no data	-
Turbo Boost Technology	-	-
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	-
Idle States	+	+
Thermal Monitoring	+	+
Flex Memory Access	no data	+
Smart Response	-	no data
Demand Based Switching	no data	-
GPIO	+	no data
Turbo Boost Max 3.0	-	no data
FDI	no data	+
Fast Memory Access	no data	+

Security technologies

Celeron N4000C and Pentium B960 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	no data	-
EDB	+	+
Secure Key	+	no data
MPX	+	-
Identity Protection	+	-
SGX	Yes with Intel® ME	no data
OS Guard	+	no data
Anti-Theft	-	-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron N4000C and Pentium B960 are enumerated here.

VT-d	+	-
VT-x	+	-
EPT	+	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron N4000C and Pentium B960. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4/LPDDR4 up to 2400 MT/s	DDR3
Maximum memory size	8 GB	16 GB
Max memory channels	2	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	no data	21.335 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card Compare	Intel UHD Graphics 600	Intel HD Graphics for 2nd Generation Intel Processors
Max video memory	8 GB	no data
Quick Sync Video	+	-
Graphics max frequency	650 MHz	1.1 GHz
Execution Units	12	no data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Celeron N4000C and Pentium B960 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported	3	2
eDP	+	+
DisplayPort	+	+
HDMI	+	+
MIPI-DSI	+	no data
SDVO	no data	+
CRT	no data	+

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Celeron N4000C and Pentium B960 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support

no data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Celeron N4000C and Pentium B960 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX	12	no data
OpenGL	4.4	no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron N4000C and Pentium B960.

PCIe version	2.0	2.0
PCI Express lanes	6	16
USB revision	2.0/3.0	no data
Total number of SATA ports	2	no data
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports	2	no data
Number of USB ports	8	no data
Integrated LAN	-	no data
UART	+	no data

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 N4000C 0.89
+43.5%

Pentium B960 0.62

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 N4000C 1406
+42.6%

Pentium B960 986

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.89	0.62
Integrated graphics card	0.87	0.77
Recency	1 April 2019	2 October 2011
Chip lithography	14 nm	32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	35 Watt

Celeron N4000C has a 43.5% higher aggregate performance score, 13% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 7 years, a 128.6% more advanced lithography process, and 483.3% lower power consumption.

The Celeron N4000C is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium B960 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Celeron N4000C and Pentium B960, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.