Intel Celeron J3160 Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Celeron J3160 has 4 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 8. gen of the Intel Celeron series. The processor uses a mainboard with the BGA 1170 socket and was released in Q1/2016. The Intel Celeron J3160 scores 222 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 764 points.
Intel Celeron J3160

CPU lineage

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Name: Intel Celeron J3160
Family: Intel Celeron (165)
CPU group: Intel Celeron J3000/N3000 (10)
Architecture: Braswell
Segment: Mobile
Generation: 8
Predecessor: --
Successor: --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Celeron J3160 has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Celeron J3160 is 1.60 GHz (2.24 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads: 4 / 4
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 4x
Hyperthreading / SMT: No
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 1.60 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): 2.24 GHz
Turbo Frequency (4 Cores): 2.24 GHz

Internal Graphics

The Intel Celeron J3160 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Celeron J3160 uses the Intel HD Graphics 400, 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 400
GPU frequency: 0.32 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 0.70 GHz
Compute units: 12
Shader: 96
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q1/2015
Max. displays: 3
Generation: 8
Direct X: 12
Technology: 14 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 8 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 & PCIe

The processor can use up to 8 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.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
DDR3L-1600
25.6 GB/s
Max. Memory: 8 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: No
PCIe: 2.0 x 4
PCIe Bandwidth: 2.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 6 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): 6 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: --
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: 90 °C

Technical details

The Intel Celeron J3160 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 1170
L2-Cache: --
L3-Cache: 2.00 MB
AES-NI: Yes
Operating systems: Windows 10, Linux
Virtualization: VT-x, VT-x EPT
Instruction set (ISA): x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions: SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release date: Q1/2016
Release price: 107 $
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Celeron J3160 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 Atom x5-Z8500 Intel Atom x5-Z8500
4C 4T @ 2.24 GHz
224
Intel Celeron N2808 Intel Celeron N2808
2C 2T @ 2.25 GHz
223
Intel Pentium T2330 Intel Pentium T2330
2C 2T @ 1.60 GHz
223
Intel Celeron J3160 Intel Celeron J3160
4C 4T @ 2.24 GHz
222
AMD Athlon II X2 250u AMD Athlon II X2 250u
2C 2T @ 1.60 GHz
222
Intel Pentium 957 Intel Pentium 957
2C 2T @ 1.20 GHz
222
Intel Celeron N3050 Intel Celeron N3050
2C 2T @ 2.16 GHz
221

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 X3 400e AMD Athlon II X3 400e
3C 3T @ 2.20 GHz
765
Intel Celeron N3150 Intel Celeron N3150
4C 4T @ 2.08 GHz
765
Intel Pentium J2900 Intel Pentium J2900
4C 4T @ 2.67 GHz
765
Intel Celeron J3160 Intel Celeron J3160
4C 4T @ 2.24 GHz
764
HiSilicon Kirin 650 HiSilicon Kirin 650
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
763
Intel Pentium E6600 Intel Pentium E6600
2C 2T @ 3.06 GHz
761
AMD Athlon II X2 250 AMD Athlon II X2 250
2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz
756

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 Atom x5-Z8500 Intel Atom x5-Z8500
4C 4T @ 2.24 GHz
184
Intel Pentium N3520 Intel Pentium N3520
4C 4T @ 2.42 GHz
184
MediaTek Helio G35 MediaTek Helio G35
8C 8T @ 2.30 GHz
183
Intel Celeron J3160 Intel Celeron J3160
4C 4T @ 2.24 GHz
182
Intel Celeron N2808 Intel Celeron N2808
2C 2T @ 2.25 GHz
181
AMD GX-415GA AMD GX-415GA
4C 4T @ 1.50 GHz
180
MediaTek MT8766B MediaTek MT8766B
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
179

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 2117U Intel Pentium 2117U
2C 2T @ 1.80 GHz
562
Intel Pentium 3558U Intel Pentium 3558U
2C 2T @ 1.70 GHz
561
Intel Pentium N3520 Intel Pentium N3520
4C 4T @ 2.42 GHz
560
Intel Celeron J3160 Intel Celeron J3160
4C 4T @ 2.24 GHz
555
Intel Pentium J2850 Intel Pentium J2850
4C 4T @ 2.67 GHz
554
Intel Celeron 1000M Intel Celeron 1000M
2C 2T @ 1.80 GHz
553
Intel Core i3-2375M Intel Core i3-2375M
2C 4T @ 1.50 GHz
546

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 Celeron 3205U
Intel HD Graphics (Broadwell GT1) @ 0.80 GHz
154
Intel Celeron 3755U Intel Celeron 3755U
Intel HD Graphics (Broadwell GT1) @ 0.80 GHz
154
Intel Pentium 3805U Intel Pentium 3805U
Intel HD Graphics (Broadwell GT1) @ 0.80 GHz
154
Intel Celeron J3160 Intel Celeron J3160
Intel HD Graphics 400 @ 0.70 GHz
147
Intel Celeron J3060 Intel Celeron J3060
Intel HD Graphics 400 @ 0.70 GHz
147
Intel Celeron J4125 Intel Celeron J4125
Intel UHD Graphics 600 @ 0.75 GHz
144
Intel Celeron J4105 Intel Celeron J4105
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.
Intel Core i3-2350M Intel Core i3-2350M
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
1270
AMD Athlon II X2 270 AMD Athlon II X2 270
2C 2T @ 3.40 GHz
1269
Intel Celeron 2950M Intel Celeron 2950M
2C 2T @ 2.00 GHz
1267
Intel Celeron J3160 Intel Celeron J3160
4C 4T @ 2.24 GHz
1265
Intel Celeron 1020M Intel Celeron 1020M
2C 2T @ 2.10 GHz
1265
Intel Celeron 3855U Intel Celeron 3855U
2C 2T @ 1.60 GHz
1265
Intel Celeron 3765U Intel Celeron 3765U
2C 2T @ 1.90 GHz
1265

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 Celeron 2961Y Intel Celeron 2961Y
2C 2T @ 1.10 GHz
39
Intel Celeron J1900 Intel Celeron J1900
4C 4T @ 2.42 GHz
39
Intel Pentium N3510 Intel Pentium N3510
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
39
Intel Celeron J3160 Intel Celeron J3160
4C 4T @ 2.24 GHz
38
Intel Atom Z3795 Intel Atom Z3795
4C 4T @ 2.39 GHz
38
Intel Celeron N3010 Intel Celeron N3010
2C 2T @ 2.24 GHz
38
Intel Celeron N3160 Intel Celeron N3160
4C 4T @ 2.24 GHz
38

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.
AMD A10-7300 AMD A10-7300
4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
139
Intel Celeron 3865U Intel Celeron 3865U
2C 2T @ 1.80 GHz
139
Intel Celeron N4000 Intel Celeron N4000
2C 2T @ 2.60 GHz
138
Intel Celeron J3160 Intel Celeron J3160
4C 4T @ 2.24 GHz
136
Intel Celeron N3160 Intel Celeron N3160
4C 4T @ 2.24 GHz
136
Intel Atom x5-Z8500 Intel Atom x5-Z8500
4C 4T @ 2.24 GHz
136
AMD A9-9420 AMD A9-9420
2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz
134

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