| Attribute |
Intel Celeron 3205U × | 
Intel Pentium 3556U × |
| General Information | | |
| Brand | Intel | Intel |
| Series | Intel Celeron | Intel Pentium |
| Model | Intel Celeron 3205U | Intel Pentium 3556U |
| CPU Cores and Base Frequency | | |
| CPU Cores | 2 | 2 |
| Frequency (GHz) | 1.5 | 1.7 |
| CPU Threads | 2 | 2 |
| Core architecture | normal | normal |
| Hyperthreading | - | - |
| Overclocking | - | - |
| Encryption | | |
| AES-NI | - | - |
| Hardware codec support | | |
| JPEG | Decode | Decode |
| h264 | Decode / Encode | Decode / Encode |
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit) | No | No |
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit) | No | No |
| VP8 | Decode | No |
| AV1 | No | No |
| VC-1 | Decode | Decode |
| VP9 | No | No |
| AVC | Decode / Encode | Decode / Encode |
| Internal Graphics | | |
| GPU name | Intel HD Graphics (Broadwell GT1) | Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) |
| GPU frequency (GHz) | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| GPU (Turbo) (GHz) | 0.8 | 1 |
| Generation | 8 | 7 |
| DirectX Version | 11.2 | 11.1 |
| Execution units | 12 | 10 |
| Shader | 96 | 80 |
| Max. GPU Memory (GB) | 8 | - |
| Max. displays | 3 | 3 |
| GPU Release date (year) | 2015 | 2012 |
| Memory And PCIe | | |
| Memory type | DDR3-1600 | DDR3L-1333 SO-DIMMDDR3L-1600 SO-DIMMLPDDR3-1333LPDDR3-1600 |
| Max. Memory (GB) | - | 16 |
| PCIe lanes | 12 | 10 |
| PCIe version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| ECC | - | - |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| Technical details | | |
| Release date (year) | 2015 | 2013 |
| Technology (Nm) | 14 | 22 |
| Socket | BGA 1168 | BGA 1168 |
| Virtualization | | |
| L3-Cache (MB) | 2 | 2 |
| Architecture | Broadwell | Haswell |
| Instruction set (ISA) | x86-64 (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| Thermal Management | | |
| Temp junction max (°C) | - | 100 |
| TDP (PL1) (W) | 15 | 15 |
| Benchmarks | | |
| iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS) | 154 | 160 |
| Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark | 1,305 | - |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 320 | 353 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 621 | 639 |
| Cinebench R15 (Single-Core) | 61 | 66 |
| Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core) | 117 | 126 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 0.71 | - |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 1.37 | - |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core) | 1,494 | 1,469 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 2,553 | 2,483 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (iGPU, OpenGL) | 14.9 | - |