Intel Celeron N2840 vs AMD A4-9120C. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Intel Celeron AMD A
• Generation
  6 6
• CPU group
  Intel Celeron J1000/N2000 AMD A4-9000

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
  2.16 GHz 1.60 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.58 GHz 2.40 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 2
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  2.58 GHz 2.00 GHz
• 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 (Bay Trail GT1) AMD Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge)
• GPU frequency
  0.31 GHz 0.60 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.79 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  4 3
• Shader
  32 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  7 7
• DirectX Version
  11.2 12
• Technology
  22 nm 28 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q2/2016

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A4-9120C and Intel Celeron N2840. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3L-1333 SO-DIMM DDR4-1866
• Max. Memory
  8 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 1
• PCIe version
  2.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  4 8

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Celeron N2840 and AMD A4-9120C to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  7.5 W 6 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 90 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Celeron N2840 and Intel Celeron N2840, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L3-Cache
  1.00 MB 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Bay Trail Stoney Ridge (Excavator)
• Technology
  22 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1170 FP4
• Release date
  Q2/2014 Q1/2019