Pentium Dual-Core E2180 vs Celeron M 520

Primary details

Comparing Celeron M 520 and Pentium Dual-Core E2180 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

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Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesCeleron Mno data
Architecture codenameMerom (2006−2008)Allendale (2006−2009)
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)August 2007 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Celeron M 520 and Pentium Dual-Core E2180 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores1 (Single-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads12
Base clock speed1.6 GHzno data
Boost clock speed1.6 GHz2 GHz
Bus rate533 MHzno data
L1 cacheno data64 KB (per core)
L2 cacheno data1 MB (shared)
L3 cache1 MB L2 Cache0 KB
Chip lithography65 nm65 nm
Die sizeno data77 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °Cno data
Number of transistorsno data105 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage range0.95V-1.3Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Celeron M 520 and Pentium Dual-Core E2180 compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configurationno data1
SocketPPGA478775
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt65 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron M 520 and Pentium Dual-Core E2180. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)-+
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States-no data
Demand Based Switching-no data
FSB parity-no data

Security technologies

Celeron M 520 and Pentium Dual-Core E2180 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron M 520 and Pentium Dual-Core E2180 are enumerated here.

VT-x-no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron M 520 and Pentium Dual-Core E2180. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR1, DDR2, DDR3

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Celeron M 520 239
Pentium Dual-Core E2180 683
+186%

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 1 2
Threads 1 2
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 65 Watt

Celeron M 520 has 116.7% lower power consumption.

Pentium Dual-Core E2180, on the other hand, has 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads.

We couldn't decide between Celeron M 520 and Pentium Dual-Core E2180. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Celeron M 520 is a notebook processor while Pentium Dual-Core E2180 is a desktop one.


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