Phenom II X3 P840 vs Core 2 Duo P8600

Place in the ranking	2845	2580
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Core 2 Duo	3x AMD Phenom II
Power efficiency	2.01	3.12
Architecture codename	Penryn (2008−2011)	Champlain (2010−2011)
Release date	15 July 2008 (16 years ago)	4 October 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$209	no data

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Duo P8600 and Phenom II X3 P840 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 cores	2 (Dual-core)	3 (Tri-Core)
Threads	2	3
Base clock speed	2.4 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	2.4 GHz	1.9 GHz
Bus rate	1066 MHz	3600 MHz
L1 cache	128 KB	384 KB
L2 cache	3 MB	1.5 MB
L3 cache	3 MB L2 Cache	no data
Chip lithography	45 nm	45 nm
Die size	81 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	no data
Number of transistors	274 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-
VID voltage range	1.05V-1.15V	no data

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Duo P8600 and Phenom II X3 P840 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.

Socket	BGA479,PBGA479,PGA478	S1
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	25 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Duo P8600 and Phenom II X3 P840. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	Virtualization, AMD64, Advanced Virus Protection, SSE(1,2,3,4a)
VirusProtect	-	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data
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

Core 2 Duo P8600 and Phenom II X3 P840 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 Core 2 Duo P8600 and Phenom II X3 P840 are enumerated here.

AMD-V	-	+
VT-x	+	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core 2 Duo P8600 and Phenom II X3 P840. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

no data

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.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Core 2 Duo P8600 0.54

Phenom II X3 P840 0.84
+55.6%

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Core 2 Duo P8600 4910
+11%

Phenom II X3 P840 4425

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Core 2 Duo P8600 34.63

Phenom II X3 P840 27.7
+25%