Which processor is more powerful?

[4klips]

I am looking to buy a used laptop. But I am little confused. All the specs of laptop are same except the CPUs. One has a Celeron N2940 and other has an i3 4110M. I looked in intel website and came to know that N2940 is full quad core(4/4) and 4110M is dual core hyperthreaded(2/4). But the frequency of celeron is less than i3.

 

So, which is the more powerful CPU among these two?

 

I will be using it for different distro of linux.

[flibberdipper]

I would imagine the i3 would be faster because it probably has better clock-for-clock performance. Hell, the M580 in my laptop (first gen i5) is as fast or faster than a lot of modern laptop processors.

[zMeul]

the i3

[genexis_x]

i3 more powerful. Performance of a CPU is based on IPC, not just cores, threads, and frequency

[TheLaserCucumber]

Out of these two, I would go with the i3, since the Celeron is on a low power platform.

But I also would look on eBay or similar places if there are any 2nd or 3rd gen i5 or i7 Laptops for a good Price.

[4klips]

4 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

i3 more powerful. Performance of a CPU is based on IPC, not just cores, threads, and frequency

Ok thanks for the reply.

 

Can you explain me what is IPC. I don't know about it.

[TheLaserCucumber]

1 hour ago, 4klips said:

Ok thanks for the reply.

 

Can you explain me what is IPC. I don't know about it.

IPC is the instructions a CPU can handle per clock.

The higher the IPC, the lower the frequency has to be to get to the same target at the same time.

[KenjiUmino]

i'd go with the i3 even though it only has 2c/4t the 4c/4t celeron will get it's butt kicked by the i3 because celerons are only here to be cheap. nothing else. 

[4klips]

Thank you guys for helping.