Intel Atom C3538 vs Intel Celeron G3900T. Specifications

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Intel Atom C3000 Intel Celeron G3000
• Family
  Intel Atom Intel Celeron
• Generation
  2 6
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  2.1 GHz 2.6 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - No turbo

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  - 12.0
• Execution units
  - 12
• Generation
  - 9
• GPU Frequency
  - 350 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics 510
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 950 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 32 GB
• Release date
  - Q1/2015
• Shader
  - 96
• Technology
  - 14 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Celeron G3900T and Intel Atom C3538. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  256 GB -
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2133 DDR4-2133
• PCIe lanes
  12 16
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Atom C3538 and Intel Celeron G3900T Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  100 °C -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  15 W 35 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Atom C3538 and Intel Celeron G3900T, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Denverton Skylake S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L2-Cache
  8.00 MB -
• L3-Cache
  - 2.00 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2017 Q1/2016
• Socket
  BGA 1310 LGA 1151
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d