Intel Pentium N3540 vs Core i3 4030U

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Intel Pentium N3540

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Intel Pentium N3540

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CPUBoss is not aware of any important advantages of the Pentium N3540 vs the Core i3 4030U.

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CompuBench 1.5 (Bitcoin mining) Data courtesy CompuBench

Pentium N3540

1.84 mHash/s

Core i3 4030U

12.85 mHash/s

CompuBench 1.5 (Face detection)

Pentium N3540

1.09 mPixels/s

Core i3 4030U

13.2 mPixels/s

CompuBench 1.5 (T-Rex) Data courtesy CompuBench

Pentium N3540

0.13 fps

Core i3 4030U

0.95 fps

GeekBench 3 (Multi-core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Pentium N3540

3,135

Core i3 4030U

3,702

GeekBench 3 (Single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Pentium N3540

976

Core i3 4030U

1,775

GeekBench 3 (AES single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Pentium N3540

62,600 MB/s

Core i3 4030U

2,370,000 MB/s

PassMark Data courtesy Passmark

Pentium N3540

1,947

Core i3 4030U

2,699

PassMark (Single Core)

Pentium N3540

578

Core i3 4030U

1,044

summary	Pentium N3540	Core i3 4030U
Clock speed	2.16 GHz	1.9 GHz
Cores	Quad core	Dual core
Is unlocked	No	No
features
Has a NX bit	Yes	Yes
Has virtualization support	Yes	Yes
Instruction set extensions
SSE2
MMX
SSE4
AVX
SSE3
EM64T
SSE
SSE4.1
FMA3
SSE4.2
Supplemental SSE3
AES
AVX 2.0
Supports dynamic frequency scaling	Yes	Yes
power consumption
TDP	7.5W	15W
Annual home energy cost	1.81 $/year	3.61 $/year
Performance per watt	8.3 pt/W	31.85 pt/W
Typical power consumption	6.09W	12.19W
bus
Architecture	FSB	DMI 2.0
Number of links	1	1

details	Pentium N3540	Core i3 4030U
Architecture	x86-64	x86-64
Threads	4	4
L2 cache	2 MB	0.5 MB
L2 cache per core	0.5 MB/core	0.25 MB/core
Manufacture process	22 nm	22 nm
Max CPUs	1	1
overclocking
Overclocked clock speed	2.65 GHz	1.91 GHz
Overclocked clock speed (Water)	2.17 GHz	1.9 GHz
Overclocked clock speed (Air)	2.65 GHz	1.91 GHz
integrated graphics
GPU	GPU	GPU
Label	Intel® HD Graphics	Intel® HD Graphics 4400
Number of displays supported	2	3
GPU clock speed	313 MHz	200 MHz
Turbo clock speed	896 MHz	1,000 MHz
memory controller
Memory controller	Built-in	Built-in
Memory type
DDR3L-1600
DDR3L-1333
LPDDR3-1333
DDR3
LPDDR3-1600
Channels	Dual Channel	Dual Channel
Supports ECC	No	No
Maximum bandwidth	12,800 MB/s	25,600 MB/s
Maximum memory size	8,192 MB	16,384 MB

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