Celeron N3450 vs Pentium Silver J5040

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Aggregated performance score

Pentium Silver J5040
2019
4 cores / 4 threads
2.14
+67.2%

Pentium Silver J5040 outperforms Celeron N3450 by 67% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N3450 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking17572167
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.42no data
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataIntel Celeron
Architecture codenameGemini Lake Refresh (2019)Apollo Lake (2016)
Release date4 November 2019 (4 years ago)1 September 2016 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$107
Current price$649 $242 (2.3x MSRP)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

no data

Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N3450 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)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads44
Base clock speed2 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed3.2 GHz2.2 GHz
L2 cache4 MB2 MB
L3 cache4 MB0 KB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperature105 °C105 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility+-
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N3450 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
SocketFCBGA1090FCBGA1296
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N3450. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2no data
AES-NI++
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shift-no data
Turbo Boost Technology--
Hyper-Threading Technology--
Idle States++
Thermal Monitoring++
SIPPno data-
Smart Response--
GPIO++
Smart Connectno data-
Turbo Boost Max 3.0-no data
StatusDiscontinuedDiscontinued
HD Audiono data+
RSTno data-

Security technologies

Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N3450 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+
EDB++
Secure Bootno data+
Secure Key++
MPX++
Identity Protection++
SGXYes with Intel® MEno data
OS Guard++
Anti-Theft--

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N3450 are enumerated here.

VT-d++
VT-x++
VT-ino data-
EPT++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N3450. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4, DDR4DDR3, DDR3, DDR4
Maximum memory size8 GB8 GB
Max memory channels22
ECC memory support--

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
Compare
Intel UHD Graphics 605Intel HD Graphics 500
Max video memory8 GB8 GB
Quick Sync Video++
Clear Videono data+
Clear Video HDno data+
Graphics max frequency800 MHz700 MHz
Execution Units1812

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N3450 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported33
eDP++
DisplayPort++
HDMI++
MIPI-DSI++

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N3450 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support+no data
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2160@30Hzno data
Max resolution over eDP4096x2160@60Hzno data
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096x2160@60Hzno data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N3450 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12+
OpenGL4.4+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Celeron N3450.

PCIe version2.02.0
PCI Express lanes66
USB revision2.0/3.02.0/3.0
Total number of SATA ports22
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports22
Number of USB ports88
Integrated LAN--
UART++

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 Silver J5040 2.14
+67.2%
Celeron N3450 1.28

Pentium Silver J5040 outperforms Celeron N3450 by 67% based on our aggregated benchmark results.


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.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Pentium Silver J5040 3317
+67.3%
Celeron N3450 1983

Pentium Silver J5040 outperforms Celeron N3450 by 67% in Passmark.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Pentium Silver J5040 416
+73.3%
Celeron N3450 240

Pentium Silver J5040 outperforms Celeron N3450 by 73% in GeekBench 5 Single-Core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Pentium Silver J5040 1133
+69.1%
Celeron N3450 670

Pentium Silver J5040 outperforms Celeron N3450 by 69% in GeekBench 5 Multi-Core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

Pentium Silver J5040 2688
+90%
Celeron N3450 1415

Pentium Silver J5040 outperforms Celeron N3450 by 90% in Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Pentium Silver J5040 8279
+109%
Celeron N3450 3959

Pentium Silver J5040 outperforms Celeron N3450 by 109% in Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Pentium Silver J5040 4296
+66.8%
Celeron N3450 2576

Pentium Silver J5040 outperforms Celeron N3450 by 67% in 3DMark06 CPU.

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Benchmark coverage: 18%

Pentium Silver J5040 15.29
+45.9%
Celeron N3450 22.31

Celeron N3450 outperforms Pentium Silver J5040 by 46% in wPrime 32.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

Pentium Silver J5040 3
+86.6%
Celeron N3450 2

Pentium Silver J5040 outperforms Celeron N3450 by 87% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core.

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

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

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Pentium Silver J5040 279
+95.1%
Celeron N3450 143

Pentium Silver J5040 outperforms Celeron N3450 by 95% in Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Pentium Silver J5040 91
+104%
Celeron N3450 45

Pentium Silver J5040 outperforms Celeron N3450 by 104% in Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Pentium Silver J5040 1.09
+106%
Celeron N3450 0.53

Pentium Silver J5040 outperforms Celeron N3450 by 106% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Pentium Silver J5040 2
+66.7%
Celeron N3450 1.2

Pentium Silver J5040 outperforms Celeron N3450 by 67% in TrueCrypt AES.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Pentium Silver J5040 1391
+36.4%
Celeron N3450 1020

Pentium Silver J5040 outperforms Celeron N3450 by 36% in WinRAR 4.0.

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.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Pentium Silver J5040 89
+53.1%
Celeron N3450 58

Pentium Silver J5040 outperforms Celeron N3450 by 53% in x264 encoding pass 1.

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.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Pentium Silver J5040 19
+60%
Celeron N3450 12

Pentium Silver J5040 outperforms Celeron N3450 by 60% in x264 encoding pass 2.

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 2.14 1.28
Integrated graphics card 1.17 0.75
Recency 4 November 2019 1 September 2016
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 6 Watt

The Pentium Silver J5040 is our recommended choice as it beats the Celeron N3450 in performance tests.

Note that Pentium Silver J5040 is a desktop processor while Celeron N3450 is a notebook one.


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