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Intel Celeron J3160 vs Intel Pentium N3540

Last updated: 2026-06-01

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 87 %

Intel Celeron J3160

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Pentium N3540

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 93 %

Intel Celeron J3160

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Pentium N3540

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.24 GHz

182

4C / 4T · 2.66 GHz

203

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.24 GHz

555

4C / 4T · 2.66 GHz

647

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.24 GHz

222

4C / 4T · 2.66 GHz

261

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.24 GHz

764

4C / 4T · 2.66 GHz

854

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 400

147

Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.24 GHz

38 cb

4C / 4T · 2.66 GHz

41 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.24 GHz

136 cb

4C / 4T · 2.66 GHz

155 cb

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Celeron J3160	Intel Pentium N3540
Family	Intel Celeron (165)	Intel Pentium (150)
CPU group	Intel Celeron J3000/N3000 (10)	Intel Pentium J2000/N3500 (6)
Architecture	Braswell	Bay Trail
Technology	14 nm	22 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket	BGA 1170	BGA 1170
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Celeron J3160	Intel Pentium N3540
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x
Frequency:	1.60 GHz	2.16 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	2.24 GHz	2.66 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	2.24 GHz	2.66 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	2.00 MB	2.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Celeron J3160	Intel Pentium N3540
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 400	Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)
GPU frequency	0.32 - 0.70 GHz	0.31 - 0.90 GHz
CUs / Shader	12 / 96	4 / 32
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	2 GB
Technology	14 nm	22 nm
Release date	Q1/2015	Q3/2013

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Celeron J3160	Intel Pentium N3540
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Celeron J3160	Intel Pentium N3540
Memory	DDR3L-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	8 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 4	2.0 x 4
PCIe Bandwidth	2.0 GB/s	2.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Celeron J3160	Intel Pentium N3540
TDP	6 W	7.5 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		4.5 W
T. junction max.	90 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Celeron J3160	Intel Pentium N3540
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release date	Q1/2016	Q3/2014
Release price	107 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Celeron J3160 is 3.4 stars (7 ratings), while Intel Pentium N3540 has received 3.8 stars (16 ratings).

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Intel Celeron J3160
4C / 4T · 1.60 - 2.24 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Pentium N3540
4C / 4T · 2.16 - 2.66 GHz

★★★★★