Intel Celeron N3160 vs Intel Core i3-5015U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Intel Celeron Intel Core i3
• Generation
  8 5
• CPU group
  Intel Celeron J3000/N3000 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
  1.60 GHz 2.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.24 GHz No turbo
• 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 400 Intel HD Graphics 5500
• GPU frequency
  0.32 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.64 GHz 0.85 GHz
• Execution units
  12 24
• Shader
  96 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 16 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  8 8
• DirectX Version
  12 11.2
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2015 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 Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  Decode Decode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode Decode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i3-5015U and Intel Celeron N3160. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  2.0 2.0
• PCIe lanes
  4 12

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Celeron N3160 and Intel Core i3-5015U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  6 W 15 W
• TDP down
  -- 10 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 105 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Celeron N3160 and Intel Celeron N3160, 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, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 3.00 MB
• Architecture
  Braswell Broadwell U
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1170 BGA 1168
• Release date
  Q1/2016 Q1/2015