Intel Celeron N3000 vs Intel Celeron 2955U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Celeron J3000/N3000 Intel Celeron 2000
• Family
  Intel Celeron Intel Celeron
• Generation
  8 4
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  1.04 GHz 1.4 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• CPU Threads
  2 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.08 GHz No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  2.08 GHz No turbo

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 11.1
• Execution units
  12 10
• Generation
  8 7.5
• GPU Frequency
  320 MHz 200 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics 400 Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1)
• GPU Turbo
  600 MHz 1000 MHz
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB -
• Release date
  Q1/2015 Q4/2012
• Shader
  96 80
• Technology
  14 nm 22 nm

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

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  Decode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• VP8
  Decode No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Celeron 2955U and Intel Celeron N3000. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM
• PCIe lanes
  4 10
• PCIe version
  2.0 2.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Celeron N3000 and Intel Celeron 2955U 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)
  4 W 15 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Celeron N3000 and Intel Celeron 2955U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Braswell Haswell U
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L3-Cache
  2 MB 2 MB
• Release date
  Q1/2015 Q3/2013
• Socket
  BGA 1170 BGA 1168
• Technology
  14 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d