Intel Celeron N3050 vs AMD Athlon II X2 240. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Celeron J3000/N3000 AMD Athlon II X2 (Propus)
• Family
  Intel Celeron AMD Athlon II
• Generation
  8 1
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server

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

• Base Frequency
  1.6 GHz 2.8 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• CPU Threads
  2 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.16 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  2.16 GHz -
• Core Configuration
  - 2x

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 -
• Execution units
  12 -
• Generation
  8 -
• GPU Frequency
  320 MHz -
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics 400 no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  600 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  3 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB -
• Release date
  Q1/2015 -
• Shader
  96 -
• Technology
  14 nm -

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon II X2 240 and Intel Celeron N3050. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  - 16 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM DDR3-1333
• PCIe lanes
  4 -
• PCIe version
  2.0 -
• PCIe
  - 2.0

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Celeron N3050 and AMD Athlon II X2 240 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)
  6 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Celeron N3050 and AMD Athlon II X2 240, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Braswell Propus
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 MMX, 3DNow!, SSE3, SSE4a
• L2-Cache
  - 2 MB
• L3-Cache
  2 MB -
• Release date
  Q2/2015 Q3/2009
• Socket
  BGA 1170 AM3
• Technology
  14 nm 45 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT AMD-V