Intel Celeron N2840 vs Intel Pentium G2020. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Celeron J1000/N2000 Intel Pentium G2000
• Family
  Intel Celeron Intel Pentium
• Generation
  6 3
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server

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

• Base Frequency
  2.16 GHz 2.9 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• CPU Threads
  2 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.58 GHz No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  2.58 GHz 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
  11.2 11.0
• Execution units
  4 6
• Generation
  7 7
• GPU Frequency
  310 MHz 650 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1)
• GPU Turbo
  790 MHz 1050 MHz
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB -
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q4/2012
• Shader
  32 48
• Technology
  22 nm 22 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium G2020 and Intel Celeron N2840. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3L-1333 SO-DIMM DDR3-1333
• PCIe lanes
  4 16
• PCIe version
  2.0 2.0

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Celeron N2840 and Intel Pentium G2020 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  7.5 W 55 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Celeron N2840 and Intel Pentium G2020, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Bay Trail Ivy Bridge S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L3-Cache
  1 MB 3 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2014 Q2/2013
• Socket
  BGA 1170 LGA 1155
• Technology
  22 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d