Intel Pentium N3540
The Intel Pentium N3540 is a power efficient quad-core SoC for entry-level notebooks. It is clocked at 2.16 GHz base clock and can boost up to 2.66 GHz (Burst clock speed). The Pentium is part of the Bay Trail-M platform. Thanks to the specially optimized 22 nanometer low-power process (P1271) with tri-gate transistors, performance and energy efficiency have been significantly improved compared to previous Intel Atom CPUs.
Architecture
The processor cores are based on the new Silvermont architecture, which is an out-of-order design for the first time. The increased utilization of the pipeline and many other improvements (optimized branch prediction, increased buffers, enhanced decoders) have increased the performance per clock by about 50 percent. At the same time, however, the Hyper-Threading feature of the previous generation has been removed. Other major changes are the support for new instruction set extensions such as SSE 4.1 and 4.2 as well as AES-NI (depending on the model).
Performance
Thanks to 4 CPU cores and a clock speed of up to 2.66 GHz, the Pentium N3540 is significantly faster than previous Intel Atoms. Overall, the performance is similar to the AMD Kabini APU A6-5200 . For everyday tasks such as Internet or Office the N3540 is adequate, but not for very complex software or modern games.
Graphics
The HD Graphics (Bay Trail) is based on the Intel Gen7 architecture, which supports DirectX 11 and is also found in the Ivy Bridge series (e.g. HD Graphics 4000 ). With only 4 EUs (Execution Units) and a relatively low clock speed of 313 - 896 MHz, the GPU is even slower than the HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge) . Therefore, only older and less demanding games will run fluently. Compared to the HD Graphics in the slower Pentium N3510 and N3520 , the N3530 and N3540 are clocked slightly faster (750/854 MHz vs. 896 MHz).
Power Consumption
The entire SoC is rated at a TDP of 7.5 Watts (4.5 SDP - Scenario Design Power). Thus, the chip can be used in compact subnotebooks and convertibles.
Series Intel Pentium Codename Bay Trail-M Series: Pentium Bay Trail-M Clock Rate 2160 - 2660 MHz Level 1 Cache 224 KB Level 2 Cache 2 MB Number of Cores / Threads 4 / 4 Power Consumption (TDP = Thermal Design Power) 7.5 Watt Manufacturing Technology 22 nm Max. Temperature 100 °C Socket FCBGA1170 Features Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail, 313 - 896 MHz), Intel 64, SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, Quick Sync, Wireless Display GPU Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail) (313 - 896 MHz)64 Bit 64 Bit support Architecture x86 Announcement Date 05/22/2014 Product Link (external) Intel Pentium N3540
Benchmarks Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64 Bit
min: 151 avg: 156 median: 156.5 (3%) max: 158 Points
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Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64 Bit
min: 40 avg: 41.9 median: 42 (15%) max: 43 Points
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Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Multi 64 Bit
min: 1.88 avg: 1.9 median: 1.9 (4%) max: 1.93 Points
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Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Single 64 Bit
min: 0.49 avg: 0.5 median: 0.5 (16%) max: 0.5 Points
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Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Single (32bit)
min: 1339 avg: 1362 median: 1363.5 (12%) max: 1385 points
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Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz -4%
Intel Pentium M 725 3%
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Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Multi (32bit)
min: 4454 avg: 4674 median: 4752 (8%) max: 4828 points
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Intel Core 2 Duo (Desktop) E6600 1%
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Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Multi (64bit)
min: 6670 avg: 6708 median: 6707.5 (6%) max: 6745 Points
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Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Single (64bit)
min: 1959 avg: 1960 median: 1959.5 (15%) max: 1960 Points
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wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 1024m *
689 s (8%)
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VIA C3-M C3-M-1200 1128%
wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 32m *
21.9 s (4%)
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1210 points (8%)
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Intel Core 2 Duo (Desktop) E6600 -3%
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X264 HD Benchmark 4.0 - x264 Pass 2
11.1 fps (5%)
Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz -83%
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X264 HD Benchmark 4.0 - x264 Pass 1
54.3 fps (16%)
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TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Serpent
0.1 GB/s (6%)
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TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Twofish
0.2 GB/s (6%)
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TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt AES
0.3 GB/s (1%)
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AMD Phenom II X4 905e 36%
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Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M *
32.7 s (7%)
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Intel Core 2 Duo T5470 -2%
Intel Core Duo T2400 -2%
Intel Pentium 4 660 0%
Intel Core Duo L2500 1%
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VIA C3-M C3-M-1200 1316%
Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M *
71.7 s (3%)
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Super Pi Mod 1.5 XS 32M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 32M *
1542 s (7%)
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AMD Phenom II X4 905e 1%
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VIA C3-M C3-M-1200 1360%
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Physics
min: 1678 avg: 1816 median: 1797 (7%) max: 1894 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
min: 14125 avg: 20329 median: 21509 (14%) max: 21979 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Physics
min: 1519 avg: 1783 median: 1833.5 (5%) max: 1883 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
2561 Points (21%)
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
2378 Points (22%)
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
3647 Points (7%)
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
4235 Points (9%)
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
3490 Points (9%)
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Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
min: 3190 avg: 3243 median: 3254 (6%) max: 3282 points
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Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
min: 977 avg: 986 median: 988 (20%) max: 992 points
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Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
3499 points (5%)
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Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
1061 points (22%)
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Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 4203.3 avg: 5811 median: 6205.4 (10%) max: 6254.1 ms
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Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
min: 282.1 avg: 304 median: 300.5 (3%) max: 322.5 ms
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Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 4996 avg: 5906 median: 5050 (8%) max: 9427 Points
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