Celeron N3060 vs Pentium A1020

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Primary details

Comparing Pentium A1020 and Celeron N3060 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2612not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Seriesno dataIntel Celeron
Power efficiency7.48no data
Architecture codenameno dataBraswell (2015−2016)
Release date1 January 2016 (8 years ago)15 January 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$107

Detailed specifications

Pentium A1020 and Celeron N3060 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads42
Base clock speed2.41 GHz1.6 GHz
Boost clock speed2.7 GHz2.48 GHz
Bus typeno dataIDI
L2 cacheno data1 MB
L3 cache2 MB L2 Cache0 KB
Chip lithography22 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperature105 °C90 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Pentium A1020 and Celeron N3060 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 configuration11 (Uniprocessor)
SocketFCBGA1170FCBGA1170
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium A1020 and Celeron N3060. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Turbo Boost Technology--
Hyper-Threading Technology--
Idle States++
Thermal Monitoring-+
Smart Responseno data-
GPIOno data+
Smart Connectno data-
HD Audiono data+
RSTno data-

Security technologies

Pentium A1020 and Celeron N3060 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDB++
Secure Bootno data+
Secure Keyno data+
Identity Protection-+
OS Guardno data-
Anti-Theft--

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium A1020 and Celeron N3060 are enumerated here.

VT-d--
VT-x++
VT-ino data-
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium A1020 and Celeron N3060. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3L-1333DDR3
Maximum memory size8 GB8 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth21.3 GB/sno data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardIntel® HD Graphics for Intel Atom® Processor Z3700 SeriesIntel HD Graphics 400 (Braswell)
Max video memoryno data8 GB
Quick Sync Video++
Clear Videono data+
Clear Video HDno data+
Graphics max frequency896 MHz600 MHz
Execution Unitsno data12

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium A1020 and Celeron N3060 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported23
eDPno data+
DisplayPort-+
HDMI-+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium A1020 and Celeron N3060 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX11.2+
OpenGLno data+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium A1020 and Celeron N3060.

PCIe version2.02.0
PCI Express lanes44
USB revision3.0 and 2.02.0/3.0
Total number of SATA ports22
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Portsno data2
Number of USB ports55
Integrated LANno data-
UARTno 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.



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 A1020 1249
+88.7%
Celeron N3060 662

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 4 2
Threads 4 2
Chip lithography 22 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 6 Watt

Pentium A1020 has 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads.

Celeron N3060, on the other hand, has a 57.1% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

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