Celeron 1007U vs Pentium B940

Place in the ranking	2835	2852
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Pentium	Intel Celeron
Power efficiency	1.46	2.95
Architecture codename	Sandy Bridge (2011−2013)	Ivy Bridge (2012−2013)
Release date	13 June 2011 (13 years ago)	20 January 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$134	$86

Detailed specifications

Pentium B940 and Celeron 1007U 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	2 GHz	1.5 GHz
Boost clock speed	2 GHz	1.5 GHz
Bus type	DMI 2.0	DMI
Bus rate	4 × 5 GT/s	5 GT/s
Multiplier	20	15
L1 cache	128 KB	64K (per core)
L2 cache	512 KB	512 KB
L3 cache	2 MB (shared)	2 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	32 nm	22 nm
Die size	131 mm²	118 mm²
Maximum core temperature	85 °C	105 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	no data	105 °C
Number of transistors	504 million	1,400 million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Pentium B940 and Celeron 1007U 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	PGA988	FCBGA1023
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	17 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium B940 and Celeron 1007U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2	Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
FMA	+	-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	+
My WiFi	-	-
Turbo Boost Technology	-	-
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	-
Idle States	+	+
Thermal Monitoring	+	+
Flex Memory Access	+	+
Demand Based Switching	-	-
FDI	+	+
Fast Memory Access	+	+

Security technologies

Pentium B940 and Celeron 1007U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	-	-
EDB	+	+
Anti-Theft	-	-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium B940 and Celeron 1007U are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium B940 and Celeron 1007U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR3	DDR3
Maximum memory size	16 GB	32 GB
Max memory channels	2	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	21.335 GB/s	25.6 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card	Intel® HD Graphics for 2nd Generation Intel® Processors	Intel® HD Graphics for 3rd Generation Intel® Processors
Clear Video	-	-
Clear Video HD	-	-
Graphics max frequency	1.1 GHz	1 GHz
InTru 3D	-	-

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium B940 and Celeron 1007U integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported	2	3
eDP	+	+
DisplayPort	+	+
HDMI	+	+
SDVO	+	+
CRT	+	+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium B940 and Celeron 1007U.

PCIe version	2.0	2.0
PCI Express lanes	16	16

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 B940 0.54
+1.9%

Celeron 1007U 0.53

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 B940 861
+2.6%

Celeron 1007U 839

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 B940 317
+25.8%

Celeron 1007U 252

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 B940 544
+29.5%

Celeron 1007U 420

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.

Pentium B940 2034
+26.3%

Celeron 1007U 1610

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.

Pentium B940 2
+28.9%

Celeron 1007U 1