Intel Celeron J3455 vs Intel Core i7-5500U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Intel Celeron Intel Core i7
• Generation
  7 5
• CPU group
  Intel Celeron J3000 Intel Core i 5000U

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 2.40 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.30 GHz 3.00 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• 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 500 Intel HD Graphics 5500
• GPU frequency
  0.25 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.75 GHz 0.95 GHz
• Execution units
  12 24
• Shader
  96 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 16 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  9 8
• DirectX Version
  12 11.2
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2016 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 Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-5500U and Intel Celeron J3455. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1600
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  2.0 2.0
• PCIe lanes
  6 12

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Celeron J3455 and Intel Core i7-5500U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  10 W 15 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Celeron J3455 and Intel Celeron J3455, 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, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Apollo Lake Broadwell U
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1296 BGA 1168
• Release date
  Q3/2016 Q1/2015