Celeron N4500: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Celeron N4500 is a Jasper Lake chip from 2021 built for inexpensive laptops, and nine 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 machines carry it.

Where the Celeron N4500 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 6.1 places the chip 638th of 737 scored laptop CPUs — the bottom hundred of the table. The neighborhood: the Pentium Silver J5005 (6.3), Celeron 1005M (6.2) and Pentium E5700 (6.2) just above, with the Pentium B970 (6.1), Celeron 3215U (6.1) and Core i3-350M (6.1) just below. Ranking level with Pentiums and lowly Core i3 parts positions this chip honestly: entry-tier throughput, with only its efficiency speaking in its favor.

What the chip brings

Jasper Lake gives it 2 cores and 2 threads on a 10 nm process with a 6 W rating, running a 1.1 GHz base with bursts to 2.8 GHz. Public benchmarks record a Geekbench single-core score of 425 with 672 multi-core, and an overall PassMark of 1,770 — entry-level figures drawn from a six-watt budget. This is silicon for cheap, cool-running student and household laptops, nothing more.

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 Minecraft, League of Legends and Dota 2. There is no cataloged game for which this processor meets even the minimum requirement. These verdicts are CPU-only, but no GPU pairing in this roster's class changes the conclusion.

Laptops that carry it

The nine-model roster is budget hardware from 2020–2023: HP's 250 G8 at $140 and 250 G9 at $780, Lenovo's IdeaPad 3 Chrome 15IJL6 at $243, V14 G2 at $357 and IdeaPad 1 14 at $399, Acer's Aspire 3 A315-35 at $399, Swift 1 at $739 and Aspire 1 at $553, plus ASUS's Vivobook Go 14 Flip at $666. The laptops around it typically show a median office comfort of 95, energy efficiency of about 78 and portability of about 52 — light basics machines rather than performers.

Bottom line

The Celeron N4500 is entry-tier silicon best matched to the cheapest kind of used-laptop duty: browsing, schoolwork, documents and video on a machine that runs cool. Ranked 638th of 737 with zero of 69 games cleared, it is not a chip for gaming or heavy multitasking under any configuration. The $140–$399 entries in this roster fit that narrow brief; anything more ambitious justifies stepping a tier up the table, where the improvement per dollar is steep.