Intel Celeron G530 vs Intel Core i5-7300U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  Intel Celeron Intel Core i5
• Generation
  2 7
• CPU group
  Intel Celeron G500 Intel Core i 7000U

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
  2.40 GHz 2.60 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.50 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  No turbo 3.50 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• 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
  Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1) Intel HD Graphics 620
• GPU frequency
  0.85 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.00 GHz 1.10 GHz
• Execution units
  6 24
• Shader
  48 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 32 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  6 9.5
• DirectX Version
  10.1 12
• Technology
  32 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2011 Q2/2016

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
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-7300U and Intel Celeron G530. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1066 DDR4-2133 SO-DIMM
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  2.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16 12

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Celeron G530 and Intel Core i5-7300U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 15 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Celeron G530 and Intel Celeron G530, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 3.00 MB
• Architecture
  Sandy Bridge S Kaby Lake U
• Technology
  32 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  LGA 1150 BGA 1356
• Release date
  Q3/2011 Q4/2016