Intel Pentium 987 vs Intel Celeron N4020. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Celeron
• Generation
  2 9
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium 900 Intel Celeron J4000/N4000/N5000

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
  1.50 GHz 1.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 2.80 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 2
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  No turbo 2.70 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• 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 UHD Graphics 600
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz 0.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.00 GHz 0.65 GHz
• Execution units
  6 12
• Shader
  48 96
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 8 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  6 9.5
• DirectX Version
  10.1 12
• Technology
  32 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2011 Q4/2017

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 Celeron N4020 and Intel Pentium 987. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1066DDR3-1333 DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  16 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  2.0 2.0
• PCIe lanes
  16 6

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium 987 and Intel Celeron N4020 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  17 W 6 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium 987 and Intel Pentium 987, 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
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Sandy Bridge U Gemini Lake
• Technology
  32 nm 10 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1023 BGA 1090
• Release date
  Q3/2012 Q4/2019