AMD Athlon II X2 240 vs Intel Celeron G1840. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  AMD Athlon II Intel Celeron
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon II X2 (Propus) Intel Celeron G1000
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  1 3

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.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  2.80 GHz 2.80 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.

• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1)
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.05 GHz
• Execution units
  10
• Shader
  80
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  7.5
• Technology
  22 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2012

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Celeron G1840 and AMD Athlon II X2 240. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1333 DDR3-1333
• Max. Memory
  16 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• ECC
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon II X2 240 and Intel Celeron G1840 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 53 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon II X2 240 and AMD Athlon II X2 240, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  MMX, 3DNow!, SSE3, SSE4a SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Propus Ivy Bridge S
• Technology
  45 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Socket
  AM3 LGA 1150
• Release date
  Q3/2009 Q2/2014