Intel Celeron N5100 vs Celeron N4500

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 1.1 GHz Intel Celeron N5100 with 4-cores against the 1.1 GHz Celeron N4500 with 2-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between N4500 and N5100
Advantages of Intel Celeron N5100
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • More powerful Intel UHD Graphics (Jasper Lake 24 EU) integrated graphics: 0.3 vs 0.2 TFLOPS
Advantages of Intel Celeron N4500
  • Supports up to 32 GB DDR4-2933 RAM

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
File compression 152.3 MB/sec 94.3 MB/sec
Clang compilation 10.9 Klines/sec 7.93 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 42.9 pages/sec 31.7 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 54.4 Mpixels/sec 36.8 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 91.6 pages/sec 85.1 pages/sec
Background blur 3.28 images/sec 2.49 images/sec
Photo processing 6.23 images/sec 4.54 images/sec
Ray tracing 1.86 Mpixels/sec 1.13 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 425 & 321 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
3306
Integer math 11.8 GOps/sec 5.5 GOps/sec
Floating point math 7.2 GOps/sec 3.5 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 12M Primes/sec 9M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 5.7M Strings/sec 3.1M Strings/sec
Data encryption 2.5 GBytes/sec 1.3 GBytes/sec
Data compression 41.8 MBytes/sec 22.5 MBytes/sec
Physics 243 Frames/sec 153 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 1.2B Matrices/sec 0.6B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 430 & 1241 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
12.42

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 16.3 PPW 6.5 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 191.8 PPW 133.5 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 551 PPW 293.3 PPW
Blender / Watt 2.07 PPW 1.11 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Celeron N5100 and Celeron N4500

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Released January 11, 2021 January 11, 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Jasper Lake Jasper Lake
Model number N5100 N4500
Integrated GPU UHD Graphics (Jasper Lake 24 EU) UHD Graphics (Jasper Lake 16 EU)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 2
P-Threads 4 2
Base Frequency (P) 1.1 GHz 1.1 GHz
Total
Total Cores 4 2
Total Threads 4 2
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 11x 11x
L1 Cache - 32K (per core)
L2 Cache 384K (per core) 384K (per core)
L3 Cache 4MB (shared) 4MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 10 nm 10 nm
TDP (PL1) 6 W 6 W
Socket BGA-1338 BGA-1338
Peak Temperature 105°C 105°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel UHD Graphics (Jasper Lake 24 EU) Intel UHD Graphics (Jasper Lake 16 EU)
GPU Base Clock - 350 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 800 MHz 750 MHz
Shading Units 192 128
TMUs 12 8
ROPs 6 4
Execution Units 24 16
TGP 6-10 W 6-15 W
iGPU FLOPS
0.3 TFLOPS
0.2 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR4-2933
- LPDDR4x-2933
- DDR4-2933
Max. Memory Size 16 GB 32 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Celeron N5100 official page Intel Celeron N4500 official page
PCI Express Version 3.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes 8 8

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Comments

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