| Attribute |
Intel Pentium N3540 × | 
Intel Celeron N3160 × |
| General Information | | |
| Brand | Intel | Intel |
| Series | Intel Pentium | Intel Celeron |
| Model | Intel Pentium N3540 | Intel Celeron N3160 |
| CPU Cores and Base Frequency | | |
| CPU Cores | 4 | 4 |
| Frequency (GHz) | 2.16 | 1.6 |
| CPU Threads | 4 | 4 |
| Core architecture | normal | normal |
| Hyperthreading | - | - |
| Overclocking | - | - |
| Turbo (1 Core) (GHz) | 2.66 | 2.24 |
| Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz) | 2.66 | 2.24 |
| 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 | No | Decode |
| AV1 | No | No |
| VC-1 | Decode | Decode |
| VP9 | No | No |
| AVC | Decode / Encode | Decode / Encode |
| Internal Graphics | | |
| GPU name | Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) | Intel HD Graphics 400 |
| GPU frequency (GHz) | 0.31 | 0.32 |
| GPU (Turbo) (GHz) | 0.9 | 0.64 |
| Generation | 7 | 8 |
| DirectX Version | 11.2 | 12 |
| Execution units | 4 | 12 |
| Shader | 32 | 96 |
| Max. GPU Memory (GB) | 8 | 8 |
| Max. displays | 2 | 3 |
| GPU Release date (year) | 2013 | 2015 |
| Memory And PCIe | | |
| Memory type | DDR3L-1333 SO-DIMM | DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM |
| PCIe lanes | 4 | 4 |
| PCIe version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| ECC | - | - |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| Technical details | | |
| Release date (year) | 2014 | 2016 |
| Technology (Nm) | 22 | 14 |
| Socket | BGA 1170 | BGA 1170 |
| Virtualization | | |
| L3-Cache (MB) | 2 | 2 |
| Architecture | Bay Trail-M | Braswell |
| Instruction set (ISA) | x86-64 (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| Thermal Management | | |
| TDP (PL1) (W) | 7.5 | 6 |
| Benchmarks | | |
| iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS) | 57 | 134 |
| Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark | 1,775 | 1,950 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 223 | 210 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 708 | 709 |
| Cinebench R15 (Single-Core) | 41 | 38 |
| Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core) | 155 | 136 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 0.5 | 0.44 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 1.9 | 1.67 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core) | 985 | 943 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 3,180 | 3,161 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (iGPU, OpenGL) | - | 13.3 |