Celeron N4020: specs and benchmarks

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Celeron N4020
2019
2 cores / 2 threads, 6 Watt
0.97

Celeron N4020 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.97% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

Intel started Celeron N4020 sales 4 November 2019. This is a Gemini Lake Refresh architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2800 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCBGA1090 processor with a TDP of 6 Watt. It supports DDR4 memory.

Primary details

Celeron N4020 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking2491
Place by popularity93
Market segmentLaptop
SeriesIntel Gemini Lake
Power efficiency15.30of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Architecture codenameGemini Lake Refresh (2019)
Release date4 November 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

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 cores2 (Dual-core)
Threads2
Base clock speed1.1 GHzof 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X)
Boost clock speed2.8 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
Bus rate15 MHz
L2 cache4 MBof 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache4 MBof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography14 nmof 3 nm (Core Ultra 9 285K)
Maximum core temperature105 °Cof 110 °C (Core Ultra 9 185H)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+

Compatibility

Information on Celeron N4020 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.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H)
SocketFCBGA1090
Power consumption (TDP)6 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Celeron N4020. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2
AES-NI+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Speed Shift-
Turbo Boost Technology-
Hyper-Threading Technology-
Idle States+
Thermal Monitoring+
Smart Response-
GPIO+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0-

Security technologies

Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDB+
Secure Key+
MPX+
Identity Protection+
SGXYes with Intel® ME
OS Guard+
Anti-Theft-

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

VT-d+
VT-x+
EPT+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Celeron N4020's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4
Maximum memory size8 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9654)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Celeron N4020.

Integrated graphics cardIntel UHD Graphics 600
Max video memory8 GB
Quick Sync Video+
Graphics max frequency650 MHz
Execution Units12

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Celeron N4020's integrated GPU.

Number of displays supported3
eDP+
DisplayPort+
HDMI+
MIPI-DSI+

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Celeron N4020's integrated GPU, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support+
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2160@30Hz
Max resolution over eDP4096x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096x2160@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Celeron N4020's integrated GPU, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12
OpenGL4.4

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version2.0of 5.0 (EPYC 9655P)
PCI Express lanes6of 128 (EPYC 9655P)
USB revision2.0/3.0
Total number of SATA ports2
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports2
Number of USB ports8
Integrated LAN-
UART+

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Celeron N4020. 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.

Celeron N4020 0.97

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 N4020 1547

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Celeron N4020 343

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Celeron N4020 547

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 N4020 2184

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 N4020 4427

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 N4020 2495

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 N4020 2

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

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

Celeron N4020 127

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 N4020 74

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 N4020 0.94

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 N4020 1

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Celeron N4020 766

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 N4020 10

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 N4020 50

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Celeron N4020 836

Blender(-)

Celeron N4020 4064

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Celeron N4020 462

7-Zip Single

Celeron N4020 2456

7-Zip

Celeron N4020 4498

WebXPRT 3

Celeron N4020 80

CrossMark Overall

Celeron N4020 310

WebXPRT 4 Overall

Celeron N4020 55

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Celeron N4020's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook CPUs.


Celeron N4020 100
A9-9410 98.97
A8 Pro-7150B 98.97

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Celeron N4020 is Phenom II X4 P960, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 5 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Celeron N4020:

A8-5545M 101.03
Celeron N4020 100
A8 Pro-7150B 98.97
A9-9410 98.97
A9-9420 96.91

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 N4020, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Celeron N4020 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 35388 configurations using Celeron N4020 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
1.1% (400/35388)
RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4080
0.008% (3/35388)
RTX 5880 Ada Generation RTX 5880 Ada Generation
0.003% (1/35388)
RTX 4080 SUPER GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
0.006% (2/35388)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
0.008% (3/35388)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.02% (8/35388)
RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
0.02% (6/35388)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.4% (136/35388)
RX 7900 XT Radeon RX 7900 XT
0.003% (1/35388)

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