Intel Core i3 3217U vs Celeron 847

older Released June, 2012

Intel Core i3 3217U

1.8 GHz
Dual core

7.1 Out of 10

older Released June, 2011

Intel Celeron 847

1.1 GHz
Dual core

6.9 Out of 10

The current comparison is one that did not actually need extensive testing or effort: the Intel Core i3 3217U is better than the Intel Celeron 847. It is expected of new cores to be better than the older ones.

But let’s not just leave it at that and give some detail. Starting from the top, the i3 has the same amount of cores as the Celeron- two- but has a higher clock speed: 1.8GHz against the 1.1GHz of the Celeron. Also, adding to that, is the fact that the cores of the i3 are hyperthreaded, which means they can handle twice the amount of threads than the Celeron can. Furthermore, the i3 offers 3MB of L3 cache, while the Celeron provides only 2MB. And, to top everything off, the i3 does all this at the same power cost as the Celeron.

The numbers in the sheet below support this verdict, that the Intel Core i3 3217U is just better than the Intel Celeron 847.

	Performance
	Benchmark performance using all cores
Core i3 3217U 5.6 Celeron 847 4.9 Celeron 847 4.9
PCMark 8 Home 3.0 Accelerated, PassMark and 1 more

	Single-core Performance
	Individual core benchmark performance
Core i3 3217U 5.6 Celeron 847 4.9 Celeron 847 4.9
PassMark (Single Core), Geekbench 3 Single Core and 1 more

	Integrated Graphics
	Integrated GPU performance for graphics
Core i3 3217U 5.9 Celeron 847 n.d. Celeron 847 n.d.
Sky Diver and Cloud Gate

	Integrated Graphics (OpenCL)
	Integrated GPU performance for parallel computing
Core i3 3217U 6.8 Celeron 847 7.1 Celeron 847 7.1
CompuBench 1.5 Bitcoin mining and 4 more

	Performance per Watt
	How efficiently does the processor use electricity?
Core i3 3217U 9.9 Celeron 847 9.7 Celeron 847 9.7
Sky Diver, Cloud Gate, CompuBench 1.5 Bitcoin mining and 11 more

	Value
	Are you paying a premium for performance?
Core i3 3217U 7.0 Celeron 847 n.d. Celeron 847 n.d.
Sky Diver, Cloud Gate, CompuBench 1.5 Bitcoin mining and 11 more

7.1	CPUBoss Score
	Combination of all six facets
Core i3 3217U 7.1 Celeron 847 6.9 Celeron 847 6.9

Winner
Intel Core i3 3217U

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Intel Core i3 3217U

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CompuBench 1.5 (T-Rex) Data courtesy CompuBench

Core i3 3217U

0.86 fps

Celeron 847

0.09 fps

GeekBench 3 (Multi-core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Core i3 3217U

3,037

Celeron 847

1,460

GeekBench 3 (Single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Core i3 3217U

1,441

Celeron 847

878

GeekBench 3 (AES single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Core i3 3217U

93,600 MB/s

Celeron 847

54,500 MB/s

GeekBench (32-bit) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Core i3 3217U

2,887

Celeron 847

1,405

GeekBench (64-bit) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Core i3 3217U

3,410

Celeron 847

1,596

PassMark Data courtesy Passmark

Core i3 3217U

2,299

Celeron 847

938

PassMark (Single Core)

Core i3 3217U

879

Celeron 847

539

summary	Core i3 3217U	Celeron 847
Clock speed	1.8 GHz	1.1 GHz
Cores	Dual core	Dual core
Socket type
BGA 1023
features
Has a NX bit	Yes	Yes
Supports trusted computing	No	No
Has virtualization support	Yes	Yes
Instruction set extensions
SSE2
MMX
SSE4
AVX
SSE3
SSE
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
Supplemental SSE3
Supports dynamic frequency scaling	Yes	Yes
power consumption
TDP	17W	17W
Annual home energy cost	4.1 $/year	4.1 $/year
Performance per watt	6.95 pt/W	3.23 pt/W
Typical power consumption	13.81W	13.81W
bus
Architecture	DMI 2.0	DMI
Number of links	1	1
Transfer rate	5,000 MT/s	5,000 MT/s

details	Core i3 3217U	Celeron 847
Architecture	x86-64	x86-64
Threads	4	2
L2 cache	0.5 MB	1 MB
L2 cache per core	0.25 MB/core	0.5 MB/core
L3 cache	3 MB	2 MB
L3 cache per core	1.5 MB/core	1 MB/core
Manufacture process	22 nm	32 nm
Max CPUs	1	1
Clock multiplier	18	11
Operating temperature	Unknown - 105°C	Unknown - 100°C
overclocking
Overclocked clock speed	1.8 GHz	1.1 GHz
Overclocked clock speed (Water)	1.8 GHz	1.1 GHz
Overclocked clock speed (Air)	1.8 GHz	1.1 GHz
integrated graphics
GPU	GPU	GPU
Number of displays supported	3	2
GPU clock speed	350 MHz	350 MHz
Turbo clock speed	1,050 MHz	800 MHz
memory controller
Memory controller	Built-in	Built-in
Memory type
DDR3-1600
DDR3L-1600
DDR3-1333
DDR3-1066
DDR3L-1333
DDR3RS-1600
DDR3RS-1333
DDR3
Channels	Dual Channel	Dual Channel
Supports ECC	No	No
Maximum bandwidth	25,600 MB/s	21,333.32 MB/s

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Comments

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Alex B. (02:48 PM, December 29, 2016)

The numbers for the combination of all 6 factors makes no sense to me. I'd like to know what algorithm they used to get the 7.3 for the i3, because (at least to me) it makes sense to just average all 6 scores, & that'd be my score for the product. But when you average all 6 of the i3's scores, it comes to about 6.63, not 7.4. And I STILL don't understand, when they score the Celeron 847 at just 0.1 higher than the i3, why they conclude that the i3 is still better than the Celeron. I did read the article, & the hyperthreading is definitely a plus & a good reason as to why the i3 outperforms the Celeron; but the scoring system I think is a bit screwed up, LOL. And when showing a detailed stats comparison, I just wanna' point out that the overclock speed shows as the same as the base clock speed. Unless these processors don't have overclock ability, typically overclock speeds are higher than base clock speeds, LOL. Just sayin'.

ObeyX (10:38 AM, March 1, 2014)

I'm definitely going up a notch higher with an i5, the rating isn't worth it in shelling out 330 bucks

Raphale (01:19 AM, December 18, 2013)

I have a Celeron 847 on my computer and want to put an i3 processor has way???

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