Intel Celeron 847 vs Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0). Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Celeron Broadcom BCM
• Generation
  2 3
• CPU group
  Intel Celeron 800 Broadcom BCM2837B0

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
  1.10 GHz 1.40 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo No turbo
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• A core
  -- 4x Cortex-A53

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
  Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1) Broadcom VideoCore 5
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz 0.40 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.80 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  6 2
• Shader
  48 24
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 1 GB
• Max. displays
  2 2
• Generation
  6 5
• DirectX Version
  10.1
• Technology
  32 nm 40 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2011 02/2016

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0) and Intel Celeron 847. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3L-1333 SO-DIMM LPDDR2
• Max. Memory
  1024 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 1
• PCIe version
  2.0
• PCIe lanes
  16

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Celeron 847 and Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0) to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  17 W 7 W
• TDP down
  -- 4 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Celeron 847 and Intel Celeron 847, 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 None
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L2-Cache
  -- 0.50 MB
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Sandy Bridge U Cortex-A15
• Technology
  32 nm 40 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1023 N/A
• Release date
  Q2/2011 02/2016