Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 vs Intel Pentium G840

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Physical Specifications

Socket Intel Socket 775 Intel Socket 1155
Foundry Intel Intel
Process size 45 nm 32 nm
Transistors 410 million 504 million
Die size 107 mm² 131 mm²
Package FC-LGA6 FC-LGA10
tCaseMax 72°C

Performance

Frequency 3.166 GHz 2.8 GHz
Turbo clock
Base clock 333 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 9.5x 28.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.2 V
TDP 65 W 65 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Desktop
Production status End-of-life End-of-life
Release date Jan 1st, 2008 May 22nd, 2011
Codename Wolfdale Sandy Bridge
Generation Core 2 Duo Pentium
Part SLAPKSLB9K SR05P
Memory support DDR1, DDR2, DDR3 Dual-channel DDR3 Dual-channel
ECC memory No No
PCI Express Gen 2 Gen 3, 16 Lanes(CPU only)

Cores

Total Cores 2 2
Total Threads 2 2
SMP # CPUs 1 1
Integrated graphics Intel HD (Sandy Bridge)

Cache

Cache L1 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
Cache L2 6MB (shared) 256K (per core)
Cache L3 3MB (shared)

Notes

Notes Spec Code of E0 Stepping: SLB9K

Features & Technologies

AES-NI Yes
AVX Yes
C1E Yes
C2E Yes
EIST Yes Yes
Intel 64 Yes Yes
MMX Yes Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes Yes
SSE4 Yes
SSE4.2 Yes
SSSE3 Yes
TXT Yes
VT Yes
VT-x Yes
XD bit Yes

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