Intel Core i5-2550k vs Intel Celeron G1830. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  Intel Core i 2000 Intel Celeron G1000
• Family
  Intel Core i5 Intel Celeron
• Generation
  2 3
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

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

• Base Frequency
  3.4 GHz 2.8 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.8 GHz No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - 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
  - 11.1
• Execution units
  - 10
• Generation
  - 7.5
• GPU Frequency
  - 350 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1)
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1050 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Release date
  - Q4/2012
• Shader
  - 80
• Technology
  - 22 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Celeron G1830 and Intel Core i5-2550k. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  32 GB -
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1333 DDR3-1333
• PCIe lanes
  16 16
• PCIe version
  2.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i5-2550k and Intel Celeron G1830 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)
  95 W 53 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i5-2550k and Intel Celeron G1830, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Sandy Bridge S Ivy Bridge S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L3-Cache
  6 MB 2 MB
• Release date
  Q1/2012 Q1/2014
• Socket
  LGA 1155 LGA 1150
• Technology
  32 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d