Intel Pentium N3540 vs Intel Pentium D1507. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Pentium J2000/N3500 Intel Pentium D
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Pentium
• Generation
  6 5
• 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
  2.16 GHz 1.2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.66 GHz 1.2 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  2.66 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - 1.2 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
  11.2 -
• Execution units
  4 -
• Generation
  7 -
• GPU Frequency
  310 MHz -
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  900 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  2 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB -
• Release date
  Q3/2013 -
• Shader
  32 -
• Technology
  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 No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  Decode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium D1507 and Intel Pentium N3540. 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 DDR4-2133
• PCIe lanes
  4 32
• PCIe version
  2.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium N3540 and Intel Pentium D1507 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 20 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium N3540 and Intel Pentium D1507, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Bay Trail Broadwell
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 3.00 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2014 Q4/2015
• Socket
  BGA 1170 AM1
• Technology
  22 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d