Intel Core 2 Duo E8300 vs Intel Pentium B950

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Physical Specifications

Socket Intel Socket 775 Intel Socket G2 (988B)
Foundry Intel Intel
Process size 45 nm 32 nm
Transistors 410 million 504 million
Die size 107 mm² 131 mm²
Package FC-LGA6 rPGA
tCaseMax 72°C

Performance

Frequency 2.833 GHz 2.1 GHz
Turbo clock
Base clock 333 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 8.5x 21.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.2 V
TDP 65 W 35 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Mobile
Production status End-of-life End-of-life
Release date Apr 1st, 2008 Jun 19th, 2011
Codename Wolfdale Sandy Bridge
Generation Core 2 Duo Pentium
Part SLAPJSLAPN SR07T
Memory support DDR1, DDR2, DDR3 Dual-channel DDR3 Dual-channel
ECC memory No No
PCI Express Gen 2

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 2MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

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
SSE4.1 Yes
SSE4.2 Yes
SSSE3 Yes
Smart Cache Yes
TXT Yes
VT Yes
XD bit Yes

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