Intel Celeron N2940 Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-04-20

The Intel Celeron N2940 has 4 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 6. gen of the Intel Celeron series. The processor uses a mainboard with the BGA 1170 socket and was released in Q2/2014. The Intel Celeron N2940 scores 218 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 730 points.

CPU lineage
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Name:	Intel Celeron N2940
Family:	Intel Celeron
CPU group:	Intel Celeron J1000/N2000
Architecture:	Bay Trail
Segment:	Mobile
Generation:	6
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Celeron N2940 has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Celeron N2940 is 1.83 GHz (2.25 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:	1.83 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	2.25 GHz
Turbo Frequency (4 Cores):	2.25 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.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The Intel Celeron N2940 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Celeron N2940 uses the Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1), which has 32 texture shaders and 4 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 (Bay Trail GT1)
GPU frequency:	0.31 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	0.85 GHz
Compute units:	4
Shader:	32
Max. GPU Memory:	2 GB

Max. displays:	2
Generation:	7
Direct X:	11.2
Technology:	22 nm
Release date:	Q3/2013

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:	No
VP9:	No

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

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The processor can use up to 8 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 21.3 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

DDR3-1333	21.3 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 7.5 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):	7.5 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	4.5 W
Tjunction max.:	100 °C

Technical details

The Intel Celeron N2940 is made in 22 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:	22 nm
Chip design:	Monolithic
Socket:	BGA 1170
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	2.00 MB
AES-NI:	No
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:	Q2/2014
Release price:	--
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Celeron N2940
4C 4T @ 1.83 GHz (2.25 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Celeron N2940 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 Celeron J3160 4C 4T @ 2.24 GHz	222
	Intel Pentium 957 2C 2T @ 1.20 GHz	222
	Intel Celeron N3050 2C 2T @ 2.16 GHz	221
	Intel Celeron N2940 4C 4T @ 2.25 GHz	218
	Intel Pentium 2129Y 2C 2T @ 1.10 GHz	218
	Intel Pentium J2850 4C 4T @ 2.67 GHz	218
	Intel Celeron N3150 4C 4T @ 2.08 GHz	218

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 Core2 Duo E8190 2C 2T @ 2.66 GHz	734
	Intel Core2 Duo E8200 2C 2T @ 2.66 GHz	734
	AMD Athlon II X2 245 2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz	732
	Intel Celeron N2940 4C 4T @ 2.25 GHz	730
	Intel Celeron 1005M 2C 2T @ 1.90 GHz	730
	Intel Pentium E6300 2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz	726
	AMD A6-3400M 4C 4T @ 2.30 GHz	726

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 N3160 4C 4T @ 2.24 GHz	179
	Intel Celeron N3010 2C 2T @ 2.24 GHz	178
	Intel Pentium J2850 4C 4T @ 2.67 GHz	178
	Intel Celeron N2940 4C 4T @ 2.25 GHz	177
	MediaTek Helio A25 8C 8T @ 1.80 GHz	175
	Intel Atom Z3795 4C 4T @ 2.39 GHz	174
	Intel Celeron N3050 2C 2T @ 2.16 GHz	174

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 E5200 2C 2T @ 2.50 GHz	541
	Intel Celeron J3355 2C 2T @ 2.50 GHz	539
	Intel Celeron J3355E 2C 2T @ 2.50 GHz	539
	Intel Celeron N2940 4C 4T @ 2.25 GHz	526
	Intel Celeron N3150 4C 4T @ 2.08 GHz	525
	MediaTek MT6750 8C 8T @ 1.50 GHz	521
	MediaTek MT8168 4C 4T @ 2.00 GHz	520

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 J2900 Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) @ 0.90 GHz	57
	Intel Pentium N3530 Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) @ 0.90 GHz	57
	Intel Pentium N3540 Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) @ 0.90 GHz	57
	Intel Celeron N2940 Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) @ 0.85 GHz	55
	Intel Pentium J2850 Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) @ 0.85 GHz	55
	Intel Celeron N2930 Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) @ 0.85 GHz	55
	Intel Celeron J1900 Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) @ 0.85 GHz	55

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 Atom E3845 4C 4T @ 1.91 GHz	1058
	Intel Core2 Duo E8300 2C 2T @ 2.83 GHz	1047
	Intel Pentium 3556U 2C 2T @ 1.70 GHz	1040
	Intel Celeron N2940 4C 4T @ 2.25 GHz	1035
	Intel Core2 Duo E8200 2C 2T @ 2.66 GHz	1034
	Intel Core2 Duo E7400 2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz	1031
	Intel Pentium 3558U 2C 2T @ 1.70 GHz	1031

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 2C 2T @ 1.10 GHz	39
	Intel Celeron J1900 4C 4T @ 2.42 GHz	39
	Intel Pentium N3510 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	39
	Intel Celeron N2940 4C 4T @ 2.25 GHz	38
	Intel Atom Z3795 4C 4T @ 2.39 GHz	38
	Intel Celeron J3160 4C 4T @ 2.24 GHz	38
	Intel Celeron N3010 2C 2T @ 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.


	Intel Pentium N3520 4C 4T @ 2.42 GHz	143
	AMD Phenom II X2 B53 2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz	142
	AMD A9-9425 2C 2T @ 3.10 GHz	141
	Intel Celeron N2940 4C 4T @ 2.25 GHz	140
	Intel Celeron 3867U 2C 2T @ 1.80 GHz	139
	Intel Celeron 3865U 2C 2T @ 1.80 GHz	139
	AMD A10-7300 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	139

Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,429 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,403 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,688 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,638 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
1,943 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,334 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,104 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,099 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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