Celeron N4000: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Celeron N4000 is a Goldmont Plus chip from 2017 that powered the cheapest laptops of its era, and 10 catalog models carry it. Against the 69 games the catalog tracks it meets the recommended CPU requirement in none of them — every title sits below its minimum bar. This guide covers where the chip ranks among laptop CPUs, what its two cores offer, and what the machines around it cost.

Where the Celeron N4000 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 3.7 places the chip 691st of 737 scored laptop CPUs — inside the bottom fifty of the entire table. The neighborhood is pure entry tier: the Pentium T3200 (3.8), Pentium G2020 (3.8) and Core i5-4300Y (3.7) just above, with the Pentium E2160 (3.7), Pentium T3400 (3.7) and Core i3-4012Y (3.6) just below. A Celeron ranked this deep in the table, with only 46 chips below it, is bottom-tier processing power by any modern measure.

What the chip brings

Goldmont Plus gives it 2 cores and 2 threads on a 14 nm process with a 6 W rating, running a 1.1 GHz base with bursts to 2.6 GHz. Public benchmarks record a Geekbench single-core score of 323 with 528 multi-core, and an overall PassMark of 1,472 — entry-level numbers by any standard. Two threads at this draw made for inexpensive, quiet laptops, and for nothing more demanding than that.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 0 of 69 cataloged games, and it lands below the minimum tier for all of them — including the lightest entries on the list like Minecraft, Dota 2 and League of Legends. There is no cataloged game for which this processor meets even the minimum requirement. These verdicts are CPU-only, but nothing in this hardware class rescues the picture.

Laptops that carry it

The 10-model roster is the cheapest tier of the used market: HP's 250 G7 at $155, the 250 G7 Notebook at $604 and 250 G6 at $531, Dell's Wyse 5470 at $214, Inspiron 3582 at $194 and Inspiron 3482, Lenovo's V130-15IGM at $155 and IdeaPad 330-151GM at $140, plus Dell's Chromebook 3100 entries. The laptops around it typically show a median office comfort of 70, a performance index of about 4, energy efficiency of about 61 and portability of about 45 — machines that never pretended to performance.

Bottom line

The Celeron N4000 is bottom-tier silicon in 2026, appropriate only for the cheapest kind of duty: one browser window at a time, documents, email and video. Ranked 691st of 737 with zero of 69 games cleared, it should anchor a machine bought for price alone — the $140–$194 entries in this roster fit that brief. Any use beyond the lightest office work calls for a step up the table; from this position, a small budget increase buys a disproportionate improvement.