AMD Opteron 240 vs Intel Pentium E5500

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket 940 Intel Socket 775
Process size 130 nm 45 nm
Transistors 106 million 228 million
Die size 193 mm² 82 mm²
Package µPGA FC-LGA8
Foundry Intel

Performance

Frequency 1400 MHz 2.8 GHz
Turbo clock
Base clock 200 MHz 200 MHz
Multiplier 7.0x 14.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.5 V 1.3625 V
TDP 82 W 65 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Server/Workstation Desktop
Production status End-of-life End-of-life
Release date May 18th, 2004 Apr 18th, 2010
Codename SledgeHammer Wolfdale
Generation Opteron Pentium Dual-Core
Part OSA240CEP5AU SLGTJ
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 2MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

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

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