14 DAY TRIAL // In the third quarter of the year, Intel plans to expand its product portfolio with the addition of three new Sandy Bridge based Celeron processors, and the specifications of these chips have now been detailed in a recent report.
The three Celeron CPUs were spotted for the first time a little month than a month ago, when an Intel roadmap made its appearance on the Web.
This lacked any sort of specifications, outside of the processors' names, so, back then, we could only speculate about the features of the three CPUs.
Fortunately, things have become a little clearer now as CPU-World has managed to uncover additional information about the chips, including their clock speeds and TDP ratings.
Making our way from top to bottom, the first CPUs we encounter are the Celeron G540 and Celeron G530.
Both of these sport similar specifications and include two processing core that are clocked at 2.5GHz and 2.4GHz, respectively, 1MB of Level 3 cache memory, and have a TDP of 65W.
Just like the rest of the Sandy Bridge processors, these too feature an integrated GPU that has an 850MHz stock frequency and can reach up to 1GHz in Turbo mode.
The same graphics Turbo frequency can also be achieved by Intel's third Celeron processor, the G440, but this time the base GPU frequency has been set at 650MHz.
Unlike, the two older models, the G440 also comes with a single processing core, that is clocked at 1.6GHz, as well as with just 1MB of Level 3 cache memory, but it sports a lower TDP that is rated at 35W.
All three Celeron CPUs will packs a reduced feature set, which won't certainly include any of Intel's Turbo Boost, Hyper Threading and Quick Sync technologies or the AVX and AES-NI instruction sets.
As stated previously, these processors are expected to be launched in the third quarter of 2011, and they are meant to replace the Wolfdale-based E3400 and E3500 Celeron models.