AMD Athlon II X2 240 vs Intel Pentium E6600

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket AM3 Intel Socket 775
Process size 45 nm 45 nm
Transistors 410 million 228 million
Die size 117 mm² 82 mm²
Package µPGA FC-LGA8
Foundry Intel

Performance

Frequency 2.8 GHz 3.067 GHz
Turbo clock
Base clock 200 MHz 266 MHz
Multiplier 14.0x 11.5x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.25 V 1.3625 V
TDP 65 W 65 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Desktop
Production status End-of-life End-of-life
Release date Jul 23rd, 2009 Jan 17th, 2010
Codename Regor Wolfdale
Generation Athlon II X2 Pentium Dual-Core
Part ADX240OCK23GQ SLGUG
Memory support DDR3 Dual-channel DDR1, DDR2, DDR3 Dual-channel
ECC memory No No
PCI Express Gen 2 Gen 2

Cores

Total Cores 2 2
Total Threads 2 2
SMP # CPUs 1 1
Integrated graphics

Cache

Cache L1 256K 64K (per core)
Cache L2 2MB 2MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

3DNow! Yes
AMD-V Yes
AMD64 Yes
EIST Yes
Intel 64 Yes
MMX Yes Yes
NX bit Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes Yes
SSE4A Yes
SSSE3 Yes
VT-x Yes
XD bit Yes

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