Intel Celeron 2980U

The Intel Celeron 2980U operates with:

CPU Cores 2.

CPU Threads: 2.

Performance-enhancing, system-enhancing technology that works faster and saves battery with:

Turbo: No turbo base No turbo all cores.

TDP: 15 W.

The processor is attached to:

CPU socket: BGA 1168.

This version includes

2.00 MB of L3 cache on one chip

Supports 2 memory channels to support DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM RAM and features 2.0 PCIe Gen 12 lanes.

Tjunction keeps below -- degrees C.

In particular, Haswell U Architecture is enhanced with:

Technology: 22 nm

Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d.

The product was released on Q3/2013.

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CPU generation and family

Name:

Intel Celeron 2980U

Family:

Intel Celeron

CPU group:

Intel Celeron 2000

Predecessor:

Segment:

Mobile

Generation:

Successor:

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Frequency:

1.40 GHz

Turbo (1 Core):

No turbo

Turbo (64 Cores)::

Hyperthreading:

Core architecture:

normal

CPU Cores:

CPU Threads:

Overclocking:

Memory & PCIe

Memory type:

DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM

PCIe version:

2.0

Memory channels:

PCIe version:

2.0

PCIe lanes:

Encryption

AES-NI:

Yes

Internal Graphics

Memory type:

DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM

GPU name:

Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1)

GPU frequency:

0.20 GHz

GPU (Turbo):

1.00 GHz

Generation:

DirectX Version:

11.1

Execution units:

Shader:

Max memory:

Max. displays:

Technology:

22 nm

Release date:

Q4/2012

Technical details

Instruction set (ISA):

x86-64 (64 bit)

Architecture:

Haswell U

L2-Cache:

Virtualization:

VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d

L3-Cache:

2.00 MB

Release date:

Q3/2013

Socket:

BGA 1168

Thermal Management

TDP (PL1):

15 W

TDP (PL2):

TDP Up:

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 A10-7850K 64 (23%)

Intel Core i3-3217U 64 (23%)

Intel Pentium 4405Y 64 (23%)

Intel Celeron 2980U 63 (23%)

AMD A9-9410 63 (23%)

Intel Celeron 2981U 63 (23%)

AMD Phenom II X4 900e 63 (23%)

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 Athlon II X2 340 126 (1%)

Intel Celeron N3150 126 (1%)

AMD A4-3400 125 (1%)

Intel Celeron 2980U 124 (1%)

Intel Celeron 2981U 124 (1%)

Intel Atom x7-E3950 124 (1%)

AMD Athlon 5150 122 (1%)

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 Core i7-2610UE 163 (2%)

Intel Pentium 3825U 163 (2%)

AMD A4-4355M 163 (2%)

Intel Celeron 2980U 160 (2%)

Intel Pentium 3556U 160 (2%)

Intel Pentium 3558U 160 (2%)

Intel Celeron 2981U 160 (2%)

Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 3 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 4405Y 1581 (23%)

AMD A10-7400P 1554 (22%)

AMD A8-7100 1554 (22%)

Intel Celeron 2980U 1542 (22%)

Intel Celeron 2981U 1542 (22%)

Intel Celeron 1005M 1536 (22%)

Intel Core2 Duo E6700 1524 (22%)

Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 3 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 A10-4655M 2670 (3%)

AMD E2-6110 2658 (3%)

Intel Celeron J1850 2628 (3%)

Intel Celeron 2980U 2611 (3%)

Intel Celeron 2981U 2611 (3%)

Intel Atom Z3745D 2601 (3%)

Intel Atom Z3740D 2589 (3%)

Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Cinebench 11.5 is based on the Cinema 4D Suite, a software that is popular to generate forms and other stuff in 3D. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.

AMD A8-4500M 0.71 (27%)

AMD A8-5500 0.71 (27%)

Intel Core i3-3227U 0.7 (27%)

Intel Celeron 2980U 0.69 (26%)

Intel Celeron 2981U 0.69 (26%)

Intel Xeon E3-1220L v3 0.68 (26%)

Intel Core i3-4100U 0.68 (26%)

Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Cinebench 11.5 is based on the Cinema 4D Suite, a software that is popular to generate forms and other stuff in 3D. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.

Intel Celeron N2930 1.35 (2%)

Intel Core i3-4010Y 1.32 (2%)

AMD A4-4000 1.31 (2%)

Intel Celeron 2980U 1.26 (2%)

Intel Celeron 2981U 1.26 (2%)

AMD A8-4555M 1.23 (2%)

Intel Celeron 1007U 1.23 (2%)

Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (iGPU, OpenGL)

Cinebench 11.5 is based on the Cinema 4D Suite, a software that is popular to generate forms and other stuff in 3D. The iGPU test uses the CPU internal graphic unit to execute OpenGL commands.

Intel Celeron N3150 13.3 (22%)

Intel Celeron N3160 13.3 (22%)

Intel Core i3-3227U 13.3 (22%)

Intel Celeron 2980U 13.2 (21%)

Intel Celeron 2981U 13.2 (21%)

Intel Core i7-3770 13.2 (21%)

Intel Core i7-3770K 13.2 (21%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

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Intel Atom Z3795 1836 (2%)

AMD A4-4000 1831 (2%)

AMD Sempron 3850 1821 (2%)

Intel Celeron 2980U 1819 (2%)

Intel Celeron 2981U 1819 (2%)

Intel Pentium N3520 1818 (2%)

Intel Celeron 1005M 1816 (2%)