Intel Celeron N4500 vs AMD Athlon 300U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Celeron J4000/N4000/N5000 AMD Athlon 300
• Family
  Intel Celeron Athlon
• Generation
  9 6
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Form Factor
  - Laptops / Desktops
• Series
  - Athlon 300 Series

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

• A-Core
  -- Tremont -
• Base Frequency
  1.1 GHz 2.4 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.8 GHz 3.3 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  2.4 GHz 2.4 GHz
• Max. Boost Clock
  - 3.3 GHz

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
  12 12
• Execution units
  16 3
• Generation
  11 8
• GPU Frequency
  350 MHz 1000 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel UHD Graphics 16 EUs (Elkhart Lake) Radeon Vega 3 Graphics
• GPU Turbo
  750 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 2 GB
• Release date
  Q1/2021 Q1/2018
• Shader
  128 192
• Technology
  10 nm 14 nm
• Graphics Cores
  - 3

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon 300U and Intel Celeron N4500. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2933 DDR4-2400
• PCIe lanes
  12 12
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• System Memory Specification
  - 2400

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Celeron N4500 and AMD Athlon 300U Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 105 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  6 W 15 W
• TDP (PL2)
  20 W -
• TDP down
  4.8 W -
• Default TDP
  - 15 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Celeron N4500 and AMD Athlon 300U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Gemini Lake Picasso (Zen+)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  1.5 MB 1 MB
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 4 MB
• Release date
  Q4/2021 Q1/2019
• Socket
  BGA 1090 FP5
• Technology
  10 nm 14nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• Codename
  - Picasso
• L1-Cache
  - 0.1875 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  - YM300UC4T2OFG
• Operating systems
  - Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit