Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 vs Intel Pentium 4 2.4

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Physical Specifications

Socket Intel Socket 775 Intel Socket 478
Foundry Intel Intel
Process size 65 nm 130 nm
Transistors 291 million 55 million
Die size 143 mm² 146 mm²
Package FC-LGA6 µPGA

Performance

Frequency 2.4 GHz 2.4 GHz
Turbo clock
Base clock 266 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 9.0x 24.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.34 V 1.5 V
TDP 65 W 92 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Desktop
Production status End-of-life End-of-life
Release date Jul 27th, 2006 May 6th, 2002
Codename Conroe Northwood
Generation Core 2 Duo Pentium 4
Part SL9S8 SL67R
Memory support DDR1, DDR2, DDR3 Dual-channel DDR1, DDR2
ECC memory No No
PCI Express Gen 2

Cores

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

Cache

Cache L1 64K 8K
Cache L2 4MB 512K

Features & Technologies

EIST Yes
Intel 64 Yes
MMX Yes Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes
VT Yes
iAMT2 Yes

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