Intel Celeron N3050 vs Intel Core2 Duo E6700. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Celeron Intel Core2 Duo
• Generation
  8 1
• CPU group
  Intel Celeron J3000/N3000 Intel Core 2 Duo

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
  1.60 GHz 2.66 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.16 GHz No turbo
• CPU Threads
  2 2
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  2.16 GHz No turbo
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• 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 400 no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.32 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.60 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  12
• Shader
  96
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB --
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  8
• DirectX Version
  12
• 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)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  Decode No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core2 Duo E6700 and Intel Celeron N3050. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM DDR2-1066
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 1
• PCIe version
  2.0
• PCIe lanes
  4

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Celeron N3050 and Intel Core2 Duo E6700 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  6 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Celeron N3050 and Intel Celeron N3050, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT VT-x
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE3
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Braswell Conroe
• Technology
  14 nm 65 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1170 LGA 775
• Release date
  Q2/2015 Q3/2006