Intel Celeron G3920 vs Intel Core i7-5960X. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Celeron Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition
• Generation
  6 5
• CPU group
  Intel Celeron G3000 Intel Core i 5000X

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
  2.90 GHz 3.00 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.50 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 16
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• 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
  Intel HD Graphics 510 no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.95 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  12
• Shader
  96
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB --
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  9
• DirectX Version
  12.0
• Technology
  14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2015

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-5960X and Intel Celeron G3920. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2133 DDR4-2133
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 4
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16 40

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Celeron G3920 and Intel Core i7-5960X to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  51 W 140 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Celeron G3920 and Intel Celeron G3920, 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, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 20.00 MB
• Architecture
  Skylake S Haswell E
• Technology
  14 nm 22 nm
• Socket
  LGA 1151 LGA 2011-3
• Release date
  Q1/2016 Q3/2014