Celeron N4000 vs Pentium J2850

Place in the ranking	2754	2510
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Pentium	Intel Celeron
Power efficiency	6.06	14.67
Architecture codename	Bay Trail-D (2013)	Goldmont Plus (2017)
Release date	1 September 2013 (11 years ago)	11 December 2017 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$94	$107

Detailed specifications

Pentium J2850 and Celeron N4000 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	4 (Quad-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	4	2
Base clock speed	2.41 GHz	1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.4 GHz	2.6 GHz
Multiplier	no data	11
L1 cache	224 KB	112 KB
L2 cache	2 MB	4 MB
L3 cache	2 MB L2 Cache	4 MB
Chip lithography	22 nm	14 nm
Maximum core temperature	100 °C	105 deg C
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+

Compatibility

Information on Pentium J2850 and Celeron N4000 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	FCBGA1170	FCBGA1090
Power consumption (TDP)	10 Watt	6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium J2850 and Celeron N4000. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI	-	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	+
Speed Shift	no data	-
Turbo Boost Technology	-	-
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	-
Idle States	no data	+
Thermal Monitoring	-	+
Smart Response	no data	-
PAE	36 Bit	no data
GPIO	no data	+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0	no data	-
FDI	-	no data
RST	-	no data

Security technologies

Pentium J2850 and Celeron N4000 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

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

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium J2850 and Celeron N4000 are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium J2850 and Celeron N4000. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR3	DDR4
Maximum memory size	8 GB	8 GB
Max memory channels	2	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	no data	38.397 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card	Intel® HD Graphics for Intel Atom® Processor Z3700 Series	Intel UHD Graphics 600
Max video memory	no data	8 GB
Quick Sync Video	-	+
Graphics max frequency	854 MHz	650 MHz
Execution Units	no data	12

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium J2850 and Celeron N4000 integrated GPUs.

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

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium J2850 and Celeron N4000 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support

no data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium J2850 and Celeron N4000 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX	no data	12
OpenGL	no data	4.4

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium J2850 and Celeron N4000.

PCIe version	2.0	2.0
PCI Express lanes	4	6
USB revision	no data	2.0/3.0
Total number of SATA ports	no data	2
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports	no data	2
Number of USB ports	no data	8
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.

Pentium J2850 0.64

Celeron N4000 0.93
+45.3%

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 J2850 1016

Celeron N4000 1472
+44.9%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.64	0.93
Recency	1 September 2013	11 December 2017
Physical cores	4	2
Threads	4	2
Chip lithography	22 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	10 Watt	6 Watt

Pentium J2850 has 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads.

Celeron N4000, on the other hand, has a 45.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 4 years, a 57.1% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

The Celeron N4000 is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium J2850 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Pentium J2850 and Celeron N4000, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.