Intel Celeron N4120 Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Celeron N4120 has 4 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 9. gen of the Intel Celeron series. The processor uses a mainboard with the BGA 1090 socket and was released in Q4/2019. The Intel Celeron N4120 scores 448 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 1,478 points.
Intel Celeron N4120

CPU lineage

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Name: Intel Celeron N4120
Family: Intel Celeron (165)
CPU group: Intel Celeron J4000/N4000/N5000 (11)
Architecture: Gemini Lake
Segment: Mobile
Generation: 9
Predecessor: --
Successor: --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Celeron N4120 has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Celeron N4120 is 1.10 GHz (2.60 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: 1.10 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): 2.60 GHz
Turbo Frequency (4 Cores): 2.50 GHz

Internal Graphics

The Intel Celeron N4120 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Celeron N4120 uses the Intel UHD Graphics 600, 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 UHD Graphics 600
GPU frequency: 0.20 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 0.70 GHz
Compute units: 12
Shader: 96
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q4/2017
Max. displays: 3
Generation: 9.5
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): Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit): Decode / Encode
h264: Decode / Encode
VP8: Decode / Encode
VP9: Decode / Encode
AV1: No
AVC: Decode / Encode
VC-1: Decode
JPEG: Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The processor can use up to 8 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 38.4 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:

DDR4-2400
38.4 GB/s
38.4 GB/s
Max. Memory: 8 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: No
PCIe: 2.0 x 6
PCIe Bandwidth: 3.0 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: 4.8 W
Tjunction max.: 105 °C

Technical details

The Intel Celeron N4120 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 4.00 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 1090
L2-Cache: --
L3-Cache: 4.00 MB
AES-NI: Yes
Operating systems: Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Virtualization: VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA): x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions: SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release date: Q4/2019
Release price: --
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

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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.
AMD A4-6300 AMD A4-6300
2C 2T @ 3.90 GHz
449
Intel Core i3-2350M Intel Core i3-2350M
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
449
Intel Core i3-4030U Intel Core i3-4030U
2C 4T @ 1.90 GHz
449
Intel Celeron N4120 Intel Celeron N4120
4C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
448
Intel Pentium B980 Intel Pentium B980
2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz
447
Intel Celeron 2950M Intel Celeron 2950M
2C 2T @ 2.00 GHz
446
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 4G Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 4G
8C 8T @ 2.80 GHz
445

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 A10-5800K AMD A10-5800K
4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz
1483
AMD FX-4320 AMD FX-4320
4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz
1481
Intel Core i5-4258U Intel Core i5-4258U
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
1479
Intel Celeron N4120 Intel Celeron N4120
4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
1478
Intel Core i3-2120 Intel Core i3-2120
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
1478
Intel Core i5-4278U Intel Core i5-4278U
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
1478
Intel Core i3-7130U Intel Core i3-7130U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
1477

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 N4000 Intel Celeron N4000
2C 2T @ 2.60 GHz
365
Intel Celeron N4000C Intel Celeron N4000C
2C 2T @ 2.60 GHz
365
Intel Pentium Silver N5000 Intel Pentium Silver N5000
4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
364
Intel Celeron N4120 Intel Celeron N4120
4C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
362
Intel Pentium E6600 Intel Pentium E6600
2C 2T @ 3.06 GHz
362
Intel Celeron 3855U Intel Celeron 3855U
2C 2T @ 1.60 GHz
361
MediaTek Helio X30 MediaTek Helio X30
10C 10T @ 2.60 GHz
359

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 Core i3-2100 Intel Core i3-2100
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
1082
Intel Celeron J4105 Intel Celeron J4105
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
1078
Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
8C 8T @ 1.80 GHz
1078
Intel Celeron N4120 Intel Celeron N4120
4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
1076
Intel Core i7-3537U Intel Core i7-3537U
2C 4T @ 2.00 GHz
1070
Intel Celeron G3930T Intel Celeron G3930T
2C 2T @ 2.70 GHz
1068
Intel Core i3-3240T Intel Core i3-3240T
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
1065

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 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 Silver N5000 Intel Pentium Silver N5000
4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
171
AMD Phenom II X4 940 AMD Phenom II X4 940
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
169
AMD Phenom II X4 945 AMD Phenom II X4 945
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
168
Intel Celeron N4120 Intel Celeron N4120
4C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
165
Intel Core i3-2350M Intel Core i3-2350M
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
165
AMD FX-8100 AMD FX-8100
8C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
161
Intel Core m3-6Y30 Intel Core m3-6Y30
2C 4T @ 2.20 GHz
159

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 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 Core i3-2350M Intel Core i3-2350M
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
419
Intel Core m5-6Y57 Intel Core m5-6Y57
2C 4T @ 2.20 GHz
418
Intel Core m3-8100Y Intel Core m3-8100Y
2C 4T @ 1.10 GHz
412
Intel Celeron N4120 Intel Celeron N4120
4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
407
Intel Core i3-4005U Intel Core i3-4005U
2C 4T @ 1.70 GHz
392
Intel Celeron N4100 Intel Celeron N4100
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
391
Intel Core i7-4510U Intel Core i7-4510U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
383

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 2961Y Intel Celeron 2961Y
Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) @ 0.85 GHz
136
Intel Pentium 3560Y Intel Pentium 3560Y
Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) @ 0.85 GHz
136
Intel Pentium 3561Y Intel Pentium 3561Y
Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) @ 0.85 GHz
136
Intel Celeron N4120 Intel Celeron N4120
Intel UHD Graphics 600 @ 0.70 GHz
134
Intel Celeron J3355E Intel Celeron J3355E
Intel HD Graphics 500 @ 0.70 GHz
134
Intel Celeron J3455E Intel Celeron J3455E
Intel HD Graphics 500 @ 0.70 GHz
134
Intel Celeron J4115 Intel Celeron J4115
Intel UHD Graphics 600 @ 0.70 GHz
134

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 i7-4510U Intel Core i7-4510U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
2574
Intel Core i3-7020U Intel Core i3-7020U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
2568
Intel Core i7-3687U Intel Core i7-3687U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
2550
Intel Celeron N4120 Intel Celeron N4120
4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
2542
Intel Core i5-4310U Intel Core i5-4310U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
2533
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9700 Intel Core 2 Quad Q9700
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
2532
Intel Core i5-3230M Intel Core i5-3230M
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
2531

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.
AMD Phenom II X4 940 AMD Phenom II X4 940
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
78
AMD Phenom II X6 1035T AMD Phenom II X6 1035T
6C 6T @ 3.10 GHz
78
Intel Pentium Silver N5000 Intel Pentium Silver N5000
4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
78
Intel Celeron N4120 Intel Celeron N4120
4C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
77
AMD FX-9800P AMD FX-9800P
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
77
Intel Pentium 3825U Intel Pentium 3825U
2C 4T @ 1.90 GHz
77
Intel Celeron 3765U Intel Celeron 3765U
2C 2T @ 1.90 GHz
77

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 Phenom II X3 710 AMD Phenom II X3 710
3C 3T @ 2.60 GHz
198
Intel Celeron G1830 Intel Celeron G1830
2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz
198
Intel Celeron G1840 Intel Celeron G1840
2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz
198
Intel Celeron N4120 Intel Celeron N4120
4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
197
Intel Pentium J4205 Intel Pentium J4205
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
196
Intel Pentium G2020 Intel Pentium G2020
2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz
196
Intel Core i3-2350M Intel Core i3-2350M
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
194

Benchmarks


Description of the processor

The Intel Celeron N4120 is a mobile processor and has 4 cores with 4 threads. The processor uses a mainboard with the BGA 1090 socket. It comes from the 9th generation of the Intel Celeron series and from the Intel Celeron J4000/N4000/N5000 CPU group. The Intel Celeron N4120 does not use Hyperthreading and cannot be overclocked. The base clock frequency is 1.10 GHz and the turbo clock frequency with one core is 2.60 GHz. When all cores are loaded, the clock frequency is still 2.50 GHz.

The Intel Celeron N4120 has an internal graphic called Intel UHD Graphics 600, with a clock speed of 200 megahertz up to 700 megahertz. It has 12 execution units and 96 shaders and has a maximum GPU memory of 8 GB. The internal graphic is from the 9.5 generation and supports DirectX 12, it was manufactured using a 14-nanometer process. The Intel Celeron N4120 can decode and encode h265/HEVC (8 bit), h265/HEVC (10 bit), h264, VP8, VP9, AVC and JPEG and only decode VC-1.

The CPU supports DDR4-2400 type RAM and with the 2 memory channels (dual channel) it has a memory bandwidth of 38.4 gigabits/s. The processor supports AES-NI encryption. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) value is 6W.

The chip design of the processor is monolithic with a Germini Lake architecture. The L3 cache is 4.00 MB. The full x86-64 instruction set (ISA) is supported, so the processor is fully 64-bit capable and supports the following extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2. The Intel Celeron N4120 was released in the fourth quarter of 2019.
The processor is compatible with Windows 10 and 11, as well as Linux.

In the Geekbench (64-bit, single-core) test, the Intel Celeron N4120 received a total of 452 points, in Geekbench (64-bit, multi-core) 1554 points. The expected result of the PassMark CPU Mark is 2516 points.



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