Intel Atom C3538 vs Intel Celeron J4125. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  Intel Atom Intel Celeron
• Generation
  2 9
• CPU group
  Intel Atom C3000 Intel Celeron J4000/N4000/N5000

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.10 GHz 2.00 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 2.70 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Turbo (4 Cores)
  No turbo 2.70 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

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

• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel UHD Graphics 600
• GPU frequency
  0.25 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.75 GHz
• Execution units
  12
• Shader
  96
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 8 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  9.5
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  14 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2017

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Celeron J4125 and Intel Atom C3538. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2133 DDR4-2400LPDDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  256 GB 8 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 2.0
• PCIe lanes
  12 6

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Atom C3538 and Intel Celeron J4125 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 10 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C --

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

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L2-Cache
  8.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Denverton Gemini Lake
• Technology
  14 nm 10 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1310 BGA 1090
• Release date
  Q3/2017 Q4/2019