Intel Celeron N4505 vs Intel Core i3-8121U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Intel Celeron Intel Core i3
• Generation
  9 8
• CPU group
  Intel Celeron J4000/N4000/N5000 Intel Core i 8000U

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
  2.00 GHz 2.20 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.90 GHz 3.20 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  2.90 GHz 2.70 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• A core
  -- Tremont --

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 UHD Graphics 16 EUs (Elkhart Lake) no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.45 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.75 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  16
• Shader
  128
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  11
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  10 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2021

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 / Encode No
• h264
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode No
• AV1
  Decode No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i3-8121U and Intel Celeron N4505. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2933 DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM
• Max. Memory
  32 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  12 16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Celeron N4505 and Intel Core i3-8121U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  10 W 15 W
• TDP (PL2)
  20 W --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Celeron N4505 and Intel Celeron N4505, 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, AVX-512
• L2-Cache
  1.50 MB --
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Gemini Lake Cannon Lake U
• Technology
  10 nm 10 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1090 BGA 1356
• Release date
  Q4/2021 Q2/2018