AMD Opteron 240 EE vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket 940 Intel Socket 775
Process size 130 nm 45 nm
Transistors 106 million 410 million
Die size 193 mm² 107 mm²
Package µPGA FC-LGA6
Foundry — Intel
tCaseMax — 72°C

Performance

Frequency 1400 MHz 3.166 GHz
Turbo clock — —
Base clock 200 MHz 333 MHz
Multiplier 7.0x 9.5x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.15 V 1.2 V
TDP 30 W 65 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Server/Workstation Desktop
Production status End-of-life End-of-life
Release date Feb 14th, 2004 Jan 1st, 2008
Codename SledgeHammer Wolfdale
Generation Opteron Core 2 Duo
Part OSB240CSP5AU SLAPKSLB9K
Memory support unknown Dual-channel DDR1, DDR2, DDR3 Dual-channel
ECC memory No No
PCI Express Gen 2 Gen 2

Cores

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

Cache

Cache L1 128K 64K (per core)
Cache L2 1MB 6MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

3DNow! Yes —
AMD64 Yes —
C1E — Yes
C2E — Yes
EIST — Yes
Intel 64 — Yes
MMX Yes Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 — Yes
SSE4 — Yes
TXT — Yes
VT — Yes

Notes

Notes — Spec Code of E0 Stepping: SLB9K

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