Pentium 977 vs Core 2 Duo T7500

Place in the ranking	2875	2700
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Core 2 Duo	Intel Pentium
Power efficiency	1.41	4.01
Architecture codename	Merom (2006−2008)	Sandy Bridge (2011−2013)
Release date	8 May 2007 (17 years ago)	1 January 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$234	$134

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Duo T7500 and Pentium 977 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)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	2
Base clock speed	2.2 GHz	1.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.2 GHz	1.4 GHz
Bus type	no data	DMI 2.0
Bus rate	800 MHz	4 × 5 GT/s
Multiplier	no data	14
L1 cache	128 KB	64K (per core)
L2 cache	4 MB	256K (per core)
L3 cache	0 KB	2 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	65 nm	32 nm
Die size	143 mm²	131 mm²
Maximum core temperature	100 °C	100 °C
Number of transistors	291 Million	504 million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-
VID voltage range	1.075V - 1.25V	no data

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Duo T7500 and Pentium 977 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 configuration	1	1 (Uniprocessor)
Socket	PBGA479,PPGA478	FCBGA1023
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	17 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Duo T7500 and Pentium 977. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

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

Security technologies

Core 2 Duo T7500 and Pentium 977 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	-	-
EDB	+	+
Anti-Theft	no data	-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core 2 Duo T7500 and Pentium 977 are enumerated here.

VT-d	no data	-
VT-x	+	-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core 2 Duo T7500 and Pentium 977. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	no data	DDR3
Maximum memory size	no data	16.38 GB
Max memory channels	no data	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	no data	21.335 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card	no data	Intel HD Graphics for 2nd Generation Intel Processors
Graphics max frequency	no data	1 GHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Core 2 Duo T7500 and Pentium 977 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported	no data	2
eDP	no data	+
DisplayPort	-	+
HDMI	-	+
SDVO	no data	+
CRT	no data	+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Core 2 Duo T7500 and Pentium 977.

PCIe version	no data	2.0
PCI Express lanes	no data	16

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 T7500 0.52

Pentium 977 0.72
+38.5%

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 T7500 828

Pentium 977 1148
+38.6%

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 T7500 1906
+32.8%

Pentium 977 1435

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 T7500 37.5
+49.3%

Pentium 977 56

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Core 2 Duo T7500 1

Pentium 977 1
+4.9%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.52	0.72
Recency	8 May 2007	1 January 2012
Chip lithography	65 nm	32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	17 Watt

Pentium 977 has a 38.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 4 years, a 103.1% more advanced lithography process, and 105.9% lower power consumption.

The Pentium 977 is our recommended choice as it beats the Core 2 Duo T7500 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Core 2 Duo T7500 and Pentium 977, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.