Intel Celeron N2940 Benchmark, Test and specs

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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.
Intel Celeron N2940

CPU lineage

The segment in which we have classified the Intel Celeron N2940. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Celeron N2940.

Name: Intel Celeron N2940
Family: Intel Celeron (165)
CPU group: Intel Celeron J1000/N2000 (17)
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

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
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q3/2013
Max. displays: 2
Generation: 7
Direct X: 11.2
Technology: 22 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: No
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 21.3 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
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

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Benchmark results

Verified 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 Intel Celeron J3160
4C 4T @ 2.24 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
Intel Celeron N2940 Intel Celeron N2940
4C 4T @ 2.25 GHz
218
Intel Pentium 2129Y Intel Pentium 2129Y
2C 2T @ 1.10 GHz
218
Intel Pentium J2850 Intel Pentium J2850
4C 4T @ 2.67 GHz
218
Intel Celeron N3150 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 Intel Core2 Duo E8190
2C 2T @ 2.66 GHz
734
Intel Core2 Duo E8200 Intel Core2 Duo E8200
2C 2T @ 2.66 GHz
734
AMD Athlon II X2 245 AMD Athlon II X2 245
2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz
732
Intel Celeron N2940 Intel Celeron N2940
4C 4T @ 2.25 GHz
730
Intel Celeron 1005M Intel Celeron 1005M
2C 2T @ 1.90 GHz
730
Intel Pentium E6300 Intel Pentium E6300
2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz
726
AMD A6-3400M 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 Intel Celeron N3160
4C 4T @ 2.24 GHz
179
Intel Celeron N3010 Intel Celeron N3010
2C 2T @ 2.24 GHz
178
Intel Pentium J2850 Intel Pentium J2850
4C 4T @ 2.67 GHz
178
Intel Celeron N2940 Intel Celeron N2940
4C 4T @ 2.25 GHz
177
MediaTek Helio A25 MediaTek Helio A25
8C 8T @ 1.80 GHz
175
Intel Atom Z3795 Intel Atom Z3795
4C 4T @ 2.39 GHz
174
Intel Celeron N3050 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 Intel Pentium E5200
2C 2T @ 2.50 GHz
541
Intel Celeron J3355 Intel Celeron J3355
2C 2T @ 2.50 GHz
539
Intel Celeron J3355E Intel Celeron J3355E
2C 2T @ 2.50 GHz
539
Intel Celeron N2940 Intel Celeron N2940
4C 4T @ 2.25 GHz
526
Intel Celeron N3150 Intel Celeron N3150
4C 4T @ 2.08 GHz
525
MediaTek MT6750 MediaTek MT6750
8C 8T @ 1.50 GHz
521
MediaTek MT8168 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 Pentium J2900
Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) @ 0.90 GHz
57
Intel Pentium N3530 Intel Pentium N3530
Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) @ 0.90 GHz
57
Intel Pentium N3540 Intel Pentium N3540
Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) @ 0.90 GHz
57
Intel Celeron N2940 Intel Celeron N2940
Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) @ 0.85 GHz
55
Intel Pentium J2850 Intel Pentium J2850
Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) @ 0.85 GHz
55
Intel Celeron N2930 Intel Celeron N2930
Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) @ 0.85 GHz
55
Intel Celeron J1900 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.
AMD GX-222GC AMD GX-222GC
2C 2T @ 2.20 GHz
1047
Intel Core2 Duo E8300 Intel Core2 Duo E8300
2C 2T @ 2.83 GHz
1047
Intel Pentium 3556U Intel Pentium 3556U
2C 2T @ 1.70 GHz
1040
Intel Celeron N2940 Intel Celeron N2940
4C 4T @ 2.25 GHz
1035
Intel Core2 Duo E8200 Intel Core2 Duo E8200
2C 2T @ 2.66 GHz
1034
Intel Core2 Duo E7400 Intel Core2 Duo E7400
2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz
1031
Intel Pentium 3558U 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 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 N2940 Intel Celeron N2940
4C 4T @ 2.25 GHz
38
Intel Atom Z3795 Intel Atom Z3795
4C 4T @ 2.39 GHz
38
Intel Celeron J3160 Intel Celeron J3160
4C 4T @ 2.24 GHz
38
Intel Celeron N3010 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 Intel Pentium N3520
4C 4T @ 2.42 GHz
143
AMD Phenom II X2 B53 AMD Phenom II X2 B53
2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz
142
AMD A9-9425 AMD A9-9425
2C 2T @ 3.10 GHz
141
Intel Celeron N2940 Intel Celeron N2940
4C 4T @ 2.25 GHz
140
Intel Celeron 3867U Intel Celeron 3867U
2C 2T @ 1.80 GHz
139
Intel Celeron 3865U Intel Celeron 3865U
2C 2T @ 1.80 GHz
139
AMD A10-7300 AMD A10-7300
4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
139

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