Core 2 Duo T5500: specs and benchmarks

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Core 2 Duo T5500
2007
2 cores / 2 threads, 34 Watt
0.35

Core 2 Duo T5500 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.35% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

Intel started Core 2 Duo T5500 sales 1 February 2007. This is a Merom architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 65 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 1660 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is PPGA478, PBGA479 processor with a TDP of 34 Watt.

Primary details

Core 2 Duo T5500 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking3058
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentLaptop
SeriesIntel Core 2 Duo
Power efficiency0.97of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameMerom (2006−2008)
Release date1 February 2007 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)
Threads2
Base clock speed1.66 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed1.66 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
Bus rate667 MHz
L1 cache64 KBof 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache2 MBof 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache0 KBof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography65 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size143 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
Number of transistors291 Millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
VID voltage range1.0375V-1.3V

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Duo T5500 compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketPPGA478, PBGA479
Power consumption (TDP)34 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Duo T5500. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Turbo Boost Technology-
Hyper-Threading Technology-
Idle States-
Demand Based Switching-
FSB parity-

Security technologies

Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-
EDB+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

VT-x-

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Core 2 Duo T5500. Overall benchmark performance 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 T5500 0.35

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.

Core 2 Duo T5500 561

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Core 2 Duo T5500 143

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Core 2 Duo T5500 249

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Core 2 Duo T5500 1660

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 T5500 3069

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Core 2 Duo T5500 1392

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Core 2 Duo T5500's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook CPUs.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Core 2 Duo T5500 is Athlon 64 X2 TK-53, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.

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Similar processors

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Core 2 Duo T5500, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Core 2 Duo T5500 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 187 configurations using Core 2 Duo T5500 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
1.6% (3/187)
RTX 4060 GeForce RTX 4060
1.1% (2/187)
RX 580 Radeon RX 580
1.1% (2/187)
GTX 1650 GeForce GTX 1650
1.1% (2/187)
GTX 1050 GeForce GTX 1050
0.5% (1/187)
GTX 570 GeForce GTX 570
0.5% (1/187)
GTX 750 GeForce GTX 750
0.5% (1/187)
GT 1030 GeForce GT 1030
0.5% (1/187)

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