Intel Pentium M 735A vs Intel Pentium N3540

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Intel Pentium M 735A CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Pentium N3540
Intel Pentium M 735A Intel Pentium N3540

CPU comparison

Intel Pentium M 735A or Intel Pentium N3540 - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The Intel Pentium M 735A has 1 cores with 1 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 1.70 GHz. Up to GB of memory is supported in 0 memory channels. The Intel Pentium M 735A was released in .

The Intel Pentium N3540 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.66 GHz. The CPU supports up to 8 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Pentium N3540 was released in Q3/2014.
Intel Pentium (150) Family Intel Pentium (150)
Intel Pentium M (4) CPU group Intel Pentium J2000/N3500 (6)
1 Generation 6
Dothan Architecture Bay Trail
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Pentium M 735A has 1 CPU cores and can calculate 1 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Pentium M 735A is 1.70 GHz while the Intel Pentium N3540 has 4 CPU cores and 4 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Intel Pentium N3540 is at 2.16 GHz (2.66 GHz).

Intel Pentium M 735A Characteristic Intel Pentium N3540
1 Cores 4
1 Threads 4
normal Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
1.70 GHz Frequency 2.16 GHz
-- Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 2.66 GHz
-- Turbo Frequency (All Cores) 2.66 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

Intel Pentium M 735A Characteristic Intel Pentium N3540
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The Intel Pentium M 735A or Intel Pentium N3540 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

no iGPU GPU Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)
GPU frequency 0.31 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) 0.90 GHz
-- GPU Generation 7
Technology 22 nm
Max. displays 2
-- Compute units 4
-- Shader 32
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory 2 GB
-- DirectX Version 11.2

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

no iGPU GPU Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) No
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) No
No Codec h264 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP9 No
No Codec VP8 No
No Codec AV1 No
No Codec AVC Decode / Encode
No Codec VC-1 Decode
No Codec JPEG Decode

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Pentium M 735A can use up to GB of memory in 0 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is --. The Intel Pentium N3540 supports up to 8 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 21.3 GB/s.

Intel Pentium M 735A Characteristic Intel Pentium N3540
Memory DDR3-1333
Max. Memory 8 GB
0 Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
-- Max. Bandwidth 21.3 GB/s
No ECC No
2.00 MB L2 Cache --
-- L3 Cache 2.00 MB
-- PCIe version 2.0
-- PCIe lanes 4
-- PCIe Bandwidth 2.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Intel Pentium M 735A is 21 W, while the Intel Pentium N3540 has a TDP of 7.5 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

Intel Pentium M 735A Characteristic Intel Pentium N3540
21 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 7.5 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down 4.5 W
100 °C Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The Intel Pentium M 735A is manufactured in 90 nm and has 2.00 MB cache. The Intel Pentium N3540 is manufactured in 22 nm and has a 2.00 MB cache.

Intel Pentium M 735A Characteristic Intel Pentium N3540
90 nm Technology 22 nm
Monolithic Chip design Monolithic
x86-32 (32 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2
PGA 478 Socket BGA 1170
None Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT
No AES-NI No
Windows 10, Linux Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Release date Q3/2014
-- Release price --
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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Pentium M 735A Intel Pentium M 735A
1C 1T @ 1.70 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium N3540 Intel Pentium N3540
4C 4T @ 2.66 GHz
261 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Pentium M 735A Intel Pentium M 735A
1C 1T @ 1.70 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium N3540 Intel Pentium N3540
4C 4T @ 2.66 GHz
854 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Intel Pentium M 735A Intel Pentium M 735A
1C 1T @ 1.70 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium N3540 Intel Pentium N3540
4C 4T @ 2.66 GHz
203 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Pentium M 735A Intel Pentium M 735A
1C 1T @ 1.70 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium N3540 Intel Pentium N3540
4C 4T @ 2.66 GHz
647 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Intel Pentium M 735A Intel Pentium M 735A
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium N3540 Intel Pentium N3540
Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) @ 0.90 GHz
57 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Intel Pentium M 735A Intel Pentium M 735A
1C 1T @ 1.70 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium N3540 Intel Pentium N3540
4C 4T @ 2.66 GHz
1215 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Pentium M 735A Intel Pentium M 735A
1C 1T @ 1.70 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium N3540 Intel Pentium N3540
4C 4T @ 2.16 GHz
388 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Pentium M 735A Intel Pentium M 735A
1C 1T @ 1.70 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium N3540 Intel Pentium N3540
4C 4T @ 2.66 GHz
41 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Pentium M 735A Intel Pentium M 735A
1C 1T @ 1.70 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium N3540 Intel Pentium N3540
4C 4T @ 2.66 GHz
155 (100%)

Devices using this processor

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