Intel Celeron N5095A vs Intel Pentium Gold 4415U

Intel Celeron N5095A

The Celeron N5095A is an inexpensive quad-core SoC of the Jasper Lake product family designed for use in affordable SFF desktops and laptops. It features four Tremont CPU cores running at 2 GHz that Boost to up to 2.9 GHz with no thread-doubling Hyper-Threading technology in sight. A pretty basic iGPU is present as well.

The only difference between the N5095A and the N5095 is that the former comes with support for more proprietary Intel technologies such as the Smart Sound DSP, Wake on Voice and HD Audio.

Architecture and Features

Tremont brings many improvements over Goldmont Plus, the architecture that we know from the N5030 and myriads of other N-class CPUs. An up to 30% boost in single-thread performance is to be expected thanks to smarter prefetchers, branch prediction improvements and other refinements, according to Intel. These new chips are physically larger than their immediate predecessors as a result. Either way, this is still a "small" core rather than a "big" one according to ChipsAndCheese.

The Celeron has 1.5 MB of L2 and 4 MB of L3 cache and is compatible with DDR4-2933 and LPDDR4x-2933 memory or slower. Support for Intel CNVi Wi-Fi 6 modules is baked into the chip, as are 8 PCIe 3.0 lanes for NVMe SSD speeds up to 3.9 GB/s. USB 4 or Thunderbolt aren't supported however.

Please also note that the Celeron gets soldered to the motherboard (BGA1338 socket interface) for good and is thus not user-replaceable.

Performance

While we haven't tested a single system featuring the N5095A as of Sep 2024, we have done several reviews of computers/laptops powered by the N5095. CPU performance should be pretty much identical between the two. Therefore, we fully expect the chip to be about as fast as the Core i3-10110U, Core i3-1005G1, Celeron N5105 and also the Ryzen 3 3200U in multi-threaded workloads. Which is just enough for the most basic of tasks in late 2024.

Performance will get a significant hit if the power target is set to 10 W or 6 W instead of the Intel-recommended 15 W value.

Graphics

The DirectX 12.1-capable 16 EU UHD Graphics runs at up to 750 MHz and is in many respects similar to what Ice Lake CPUs come equipped with. This graphics adapter is capable of driving up to 3 SUHD displays simultaneously; HEVC, AVC, VP9, MPEG-2 and other popular video codecs can all be hardware-decoded. AV1 and VVC can't.

As far as gaming is concerned, it is reasonable to expect playable framerates in really old games (like Dota 2 Reborn) provided one sticks to lower resolutions such as HD 720p.

Power consumption

While most N-class chips have a 6 W long-term power target, the Celeron N5095A has a 15 W TDP to mimic much faster U-class Core processors. This isn't a great CPU for passively cooled designs.

The N5095A is built with the same 10 nm Intel process as Ice Lake-U processors for pretty unimpressive power efficiency, as of late 2024.

Intel Pentium Gold 4415U

Der Intel Pentium Gold 4415U ist ein sparsamer Dual-Core-SoC auf Basis der Kaby-Lake-Architektur, der im 1. Quartal 2017 vorgestellt wurde. Die CPU wird hauptsächlich in Ultrabooks, aber auch gewöhnlichen Notebooks verbaut. Neben den zwei CPU-Kernen samt Hyper-Threading, die mit 2,3 GHz takten (kein Turbo Boost), integriert der Prozessor auch eine HD Graphics 610 Grafikeinheit sowie einen Dual-Channel-Speichercontroller (LPDDR3-1866/DDR4-2133/DDR3L-1600). Die Fertigung erfolgt in einem 14-Nanometer-Prozess mit FinFET-Transistoren.

Architektur

Im Vergleich mit Skylake hat Intel die zugrundeliegende Mikroarchitektur praktisch unverändert übernommen, sodass sich keine Unterschiede in der Pro-MHz-Leistung ergeben. Überarbeitet wurde lediglich die Speed-Shift-Technik zur schnelleren dynamischen Anpassung von Spannungen und Taktraten, zudem gestattet der gereifte 14-Nanometer-Prozess deutlich höhere Frequenzen und eine bessere Energieeffizienz als bislang.

Performance

Dank Hyper-Threading-Support rückt der Pentium 4415U nahe an die preislich höher positionierte Core-i3-Serie heran und erreicht in etwa die Leistung des alten Core i3-4000M (Haswell 2.4 GHz Dual-Core). Damit stehen für alltägliche Anwendungen, aber auch viele anspruchsvollere Programme ausreichende Reserven bereit.

Grafikeinheit

Die integrierte Grafikeinheit namens Intel HD Graphics 610 repräsentiert die kleinste, auch "GT1" genannte Ausbaustufe der Kaby-Lake-GPU (Intel Gen. 9).

Leistungsaufnahme

Dank "Configurable TDP" kann die CPU ausgehend von den standardmäßigen 15 Watt auch mit einer TDP von 10 Watt (cTDP Down) betrieben werden, wodurch sich jedoch die Performance reduziert. Je nach Einstellung ist der Chip für schlanke Note- und Ultrabooks ab etwa 11 Zoll Bilddiagonale geeignet.