Intel Celeron 3215U Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2024-04-15

The Intel Celeron 3215U has 2 cores with 2 threads and is based on the 7. gen of the Intel Celeron series. The processor uses a mainboard with the BGA 1168 socket and was released in Q2/2015. The Intel Celeron 3215U scores 394 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 810 points.

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Name:	Intel Celeron 3215U
Family:	Intel Celeron (165)
CPU group:	Intel Celeron 3000 (10)
Architecture:	Kaby Lake U
Segment:	Mobile
Generation:	7
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Celeron 3215U has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 2 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Celeron 3215U is 1.70 GHz. The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads:	2 / 2
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	2x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	No
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	1.70 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	--
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores):	--

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.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The Intel Celeron 3215U has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Celeron 3215U uses the Intel HD Graphics (Broadwell GT1), which has 96 texture shaders and 12 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name:	Intel HD Graphics (Broadwell GT1)
GPU frequency:	0.10 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	0.80 GHz
Compute units:	12
Shader:	96
Hardware Raytracing:	No
Release date:	Q1/2015

Max. displays:	3
Generation:	8
Direct X:	11.2
Technology:	14 nm
Max. GPU Memory:	2 GB
Frame Generation:	No

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.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit):	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):	No
h264:	Decode / Encode
VP8:	Decode
VP9:	No

AV1:	No
AVC:	Decode / Encode
VC-1:	Decode
JPEG:	Decode

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The processor can use up to 16 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 25.6 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

LPDDR3-1600 DDR3L-1600	12.8 GB/s 25.6 GB/s
Max. Memory:	16 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	No
PCIe:	2.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth:	6.0 GB/s

Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 15 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	15 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	10 W
Tjunction max.:	105 °C

Technical details

The Intel Celeron 3215U is made in 14 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 2.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology:	14 nm
Chip design:	Monolithic
Socket:	BGA 1168
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	2.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:	Windows 10, Linux

Virtualization:	VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release date:	Q2/2015
Release price:	--
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Celeron 3215U
2C 2T @ 1.70 GHz

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Celeron 3215U have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.

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 E6300 2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz	397
	AMD Athlon II X3 455 3C 3T @ 3.30 GHz	396
	Intel Pentium E5500 2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz	396
	Intel Celeron 3215U 2C 2T @ 1.70 GHz	394
	AMD Athlon II X2 250e 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	394
	Intel Celeron N4100 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	394
	Intel Celeron 3755U 2C 2T @ 1.70 GHz	394

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.


	AMD Athlon II X2 260 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	820
	Intel Core2 Duo E7500 2C 2T @ 2.93 GHz	817
	HiSilicon Kirin 658 8C 8T @ 2.35 GHz	815
	Intel Celeron 3215U 2C 2T @ 1.70 GHz	810
	AMD A9-9420 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	805
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 6C 6T @ 1.80 GHz	803
	Intel Atom Z3775 4C 4T @ 1.46 GHz	803

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 Celeron 1005M 2C 2T @ 1.90 GHz	340
	Intel Pentium J4205 4C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	338
	MediaTek MT8176 6C 6T @ 2.00 GHz	338
	Intel Celeron 3215U 2C 2T @ 1.70 GHz	335
	Intel Celeron N4100 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	335
	Intel Celeron 3755U 2C 2T @ 1.70 GHz	335
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz	334

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 Celeron 1005M 2C 2T @ 1.90 GHz	607
	Intel Atom x7-Z8750 4C 4T @ 2.56 GHz	603
	Intel Core i3-3217UE 2C 4T @ 1.60 GHz	602
	Intel Celeron 3215U 2C 2T @ 1.70 GHz	601
	Apple A8 2C 2T @ 1.50 GHz	588
	Intel Atom x7-Z8700 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	584
	AMD Athlon 5150 4C 4T @ 1.60 GHz	583

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 Celeron 3205U Intel HD Graphics (Broadwell GT1) @ 0.80 GHz	154
	Intel Celeron 3755U Intel HD Graphics (Broadwell GT1) @ 0.80 GHz	154
	Intel Pentium 3805U Intel HD Graphics (Broadwell GT1) @ 0.80 GHz	154
	Intel Celeron 3215U Intel HD Graphics (Broadwell GT1) @ 0.80 GHz	154
	Intel Celeron J3060 Intel HD Graphics 400 @ 0.70 GHz	147
	Intel Celeron J3160 Intel HD Graphics 400 @ 0.70 GHz	147
	Intel Celeron J4125 Intel UHD Graphics 600 @ 0.75 GHz	144

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.


	AMD Sempron 3850 4C 4T @ 1.30 GHz	1155
	Intel Core i3-3217UE 2C 4T @ 1.60 GHz	1155
	Intel Core2 Duo E7600 2C 2T @ 3.06 GHz	1154
	Intel Celeron 3215U 2C 2T @ 1.70 GHz	1145
	AMD Athlon II X2 250 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	1145
	Intel Celeron J1900 4C 4T @ 2.42 GHz	1139
	Intel Pentium N3520 4C 4T @ 2.42 GHz	1139

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 Xeon E5-2603 v4 6C 6T @ 1.70 GHz	71
	Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 8C 8T @ 1.70 GHz	71
	Intel Celeron N4000 2C 2T @ 2.60 GHz	70
	Intel Celeron 3215U 2C 2T @ 1.70 GHz	69
	AMD A6-9220 2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz	69
	Intel Celeron 3755U 2C 2T @ 1.70 GHz	69
	Intel Core i3-3227U 2C 4T @ 1.90 GHz	69

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 Atom x5-Z8500 4C 4T @ 2.24 GHz	136
	AMD A9-9420 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	134
	Intel Core i5-4302Y 2C 4T @ 2.00 GHz	134
	Intel Celeron 3215U 2C 2T @ 1.70 GHz	133
	Intel Celeron 3755U 2C 2T @ 1.70 GHz	133
	Intel Atom Z3795 4C 4T @ 1.59 GHz	132
	Intel Pentium 3558U 2C 2T @ 1.70 GHz	131

Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,488 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,461 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,754 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,702 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,026 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,391 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,106 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,101 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
942 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
938 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
825 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
836 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

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