Intel Celeron G3900T vs Intel Atom C3538. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Celeron Intel Atom
• Generation
  6 2
• CPU group
  Intel Celeron G3000 Intel Atom C3000

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
  2.60 GHz 2.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo No turbo
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• 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 510 no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.95 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  12
• Shader
  96
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB --
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  9
• DirectX Version
  12.0
• Technology
  14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2015

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Atom C3538 and Intel Celeron G3900T. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2133 DDR4-2133
• Max. Memory
  256 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16 12

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Celeron G3900T and Intel Atom C3538 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  35 W 15 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 100 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Celeron G3900T and Intel Celeron G3900T, 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
• L2-Cache
  -- 8.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Skylake S Denverton
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  LGA 1151 BGA 1310
• Release date
  Q1/2016 Q3/2017