Pentium N3540 vs Pentium 3560M

Place in the ranking	2577	2657
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Pentium	Intel Pentium
Power efficiency	2.16	9.54
Architecture codename	Haswell (2013−2015)	Bay Trail-M (2013−2014)
Release date	14 April 2014 (10 years ago)	22 May 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$134	$251

Detailed specifications

Pentium 3560M and Pentium N3540 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)	4 (Quad-Core)
Threads	2	4
Base clock speed	2.4 GHz	2.16 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.4 GHz	2.66 GHz
Bus rate	5 GT/s	no data
L1 cache	128 KB	224 KB
L2 cache	512 KB	2 MB
L3 cache	2 MB	2 MB L2 Cache
Chip lithography	22 nm	22 nm
Die size	130 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	100 °C	100 °C
Number of transistors	960 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Pentium 3560M and Pentium N3540 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
Socket	FCPGA946	FCBGA1170
Power consumption (TDP)	37 Watt	7.5 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium 3560M and Pentium N3540. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2	no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	+
Turbo Boost Technology	-	-
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	-
Idle States	no data	+
Thermal Monitoring	+	-
Smart Connect	no data	+

Security technologies

Pentium 3560M and Pentium N3540 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	-	no data
EDB	+	+
Secure Key	+	+
Anti-Theft	-	-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium 3560M and Pentium N3540 are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium 3560M and Pentium N3540. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR3	DDR3L-1333
Maximum memory size	32 GB	8 GB
Max memory channels	2	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	25.6 GB/s	21.32 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card	Intel HD Graphics for 4th Generation Intel Processors	Intel HD Graphics for Intel Atom Processor Z3700 Series
Quick Sync Video	+	+
Clear Video HD	-	-
Graphics max frequency	1.1 GHz	896 MHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium 3560M and Pentium N3540 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported	3	2
eDP	+	no data
DisplayPort	+	-
HDMI	+	-
VGA	+	no data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium 3560M and Pentium N3540 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX

no data

11.2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium 3560M and Pentium N3540.

PCIe version	2.0	2.0
PCI Express lanes	16	4
USB revision	no data	3.0 and 2.0
Total number of SATA ports	no data	2
Number of USB ports	no data	5

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.

Pentium 3560M 0.85
+11.8%

Pentium N3540 0.76

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.

Pentium 3560M 1345
+11.9%

Pentium N3540 1202

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.

Pentium 3560M 514
+168%

Pentium N3540 192

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.

Pentium 3560M 960
+75.2%

Pentium N3540 548

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.85	0.76
Recency	14 April 2014	22 May 2014
Physical cores	2	4
Threads	2	4
Power consumption (TDP)	37 Watt	7 Watt

Pentium 3560M has a 11.8% higher aggregate performance score.

Pentium N3540, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 month, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and 428.6% lower power consumption.

The Pentium 3560M is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium N3540 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Pentium 3560M and Pentium N3540, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.