Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711) vs Intel Celeron N4020. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  Broadcom BCM Intel Celeron
• Generation
  4 9
• CPU group
  Broadcom BCM2711 Intel Celeron J4000/N4000/N5000

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 1.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 2.80 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• A core
  4x Cortex-A72 --

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
  Broadcom VideoCore VI Intel UHD Graphics 600
• GPU frequency
  0.50 GHz 0.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.65 GHz
• Execution units
  4 12
• Shader
  64 96
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 8 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  6 9.5
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  06/2019 Q4/2017

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Celeron N4020 and Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711). Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  8192 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 2
• PCIe version
  2.0
• PCIe lanes
  6

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711) and Intel Celeron N4020 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  7.5 W 6 W
• TDP down
  3 W --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711) and Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711), virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cortex-A72 Gemini Lake
• Technology
  28 nm 10 nm
• Socket
  N/A BGA 1090
• Release date
  06/2019 Q4/2019