Pentium B940 vs Core 2 Duo T7400

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Primary details

Comparing Core 2 Duo T7400 and Pentium B940 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated2828
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Core 2 DuoIntel Pentium
Power efficiencyno data1.46
Architecture codenameMerom (2006−2008)Sandy Bridge (2011−2013)
Release date28 August 2006 (18 years ago)13 June 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$286$134

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Duo T7400 and Pentium B940 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 cores2 (Dual-core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Base clock speed2.16 GHz2 GHz
Boost clock speed2.16 GHz2 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 2.0
Bus rate667 MHz4 × 5 GT/s
Multiplierno data20
L1 cache64 KB128 KB
L2 cache4 MB512 KB
L3 cache0 KB2 MB (shared)
Chip lithography65 nm32 nm
Die size143 mm2131 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °C85 °C
Number of transistors291 Million504 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage range1.1625V-1.3Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Duo T7400 and Pentium B940 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 configuration11 (Uniprocessor)
SocketPBGA479,PPGA478PGA988
Power consumption (TDP)34 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Duo T7400 and Pentium B940. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
FMA-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
My WiFino data-
Turbo Boost Technology--
Hyper-Threading Technology--
Idle States-+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Flex Memory Accessno data+
Demand Based Switching--
FDIno data+
Fast Memory Accessno data+
FSB parity-no data

Security technologies

Core 2 Duo T7400 and Pentium B940 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT--
EDB++
Anti-Theftno data-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core 2 Duo T7400 and Pentium B940 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-x+-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core 2 Duo T7400 and Pentium B940. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3
Maximum memory sizeno data16 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data21.335 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel® HD Graphics for 2nd Generation Intel® Processors
Graphics max frequencyno data1.1 GHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Core 2 Duo T7400 and Pentium B940 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data2
eDPno data+
DisplayPort-+
HDMI-+
SDVOno data+
CRTno data+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Core 2 Duo T7400 and Pentium B940.

PCIe versionno data2.0
PCI Express lanesno data16

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.

Core 2 Duo T7400 761
Pentium B940 861
+13.1%

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 T7400 285
Pentium B940 317
+11.2%

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 T7400 483
Pentium B940 544
+12.6%

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 T7400 1861
Pentium B940 2034
+9.3%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 August 2006 13 June 2011
Chip lithography 65 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 34 Watt 35 Watt

Core 2 Duo T7400 has 2.9% lower power consumption.

Pentium B940, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 103.1% more advanced lithography process.

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