Intel Celeron G3920 vs Intel Core i7-5960X. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Celeron G3000 Intel Core i 5000X
• Family
  Intel Celeron Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition
• 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
  2.9 GHz 3 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 8
• CPU Threads
  2 16
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  - 3.2 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
  12.0 -
• Execution units
  12 -
• Generation
  9 -
• GPU Frequency
  350 MHz -
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics 510 None
• GPU Turbo
  950 MHz -
• Max. displays
  3 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB -
• Release date
  Q1/2015 -
• Shader
  96 -
• Technology
  14 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)
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  Decode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-5960X and Intel Celeron G3920. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 4
• Memory type
  DDR4-2133 DDR4-2133
• PCIe lanes
  16 40
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Celeron G3920 and Intel Core i7-5960X 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)
  51 W 140 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Celeron G3920 and Intel Core i7-5960X, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Skylake S Haswell E
• 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 MB 20 MB
• Release date
  Q1/2016 Q3/2014
• Socket
  LGA 1151 LGA 2011-3
• Technology
  14 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d