E-300 vs Pentium D 820

VS

Primary details

Comparing Pentium D 820 and E-300 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
SeriesPentium DAMD E-Series
Architecture codenameSmithfield (2005)Zacate (2011−2013)
Release dateMay 2005 (19 years ago)22 August 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium D 820 and E-300 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 speed2.8 GHzno data
Boost clock speed2.8 GHz1.3 GHz
Bus rate800 MHzno data
L1 cache28 KB64K (per core)
L2 cache2 MB512K (per core)
L3 cache0 KB0 KB
Chip lithography90 nm40 nm
Die size206 mm275 mm2
Maximum core temperature64 °Cno data
Number of transistors169 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage range1.2V-1.4Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium D 820 and E-300 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 configuration21
SocketPLGA775FT1
Power consumption (TDP)95 Watt18 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium D 820 and E-300. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SVM
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)-no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States+no data
Demand Based Switching-no data
PAE32 Bitno data
FSB parity-no data

Security technologies

Pentium D 820 and E-300 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 Pentium D 820 and E-300 are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-d-no data
VT-x-no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium D 820 and E-300. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR1, DDR2, DDR3DDR3

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon HD 6310

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.

Pentium D 820 499
+47.2%
E-300 339

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.

Pentium D 820 1412
+68.4%
E-300 839

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 90 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 95 Watt 18 Watt

E-300 has a 125% more advanced lithography process, and 427.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Pentium D 820 and E-300. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Pentium D 820 is a desktop processor while E-300 is a notebook one.


Should you still have questions on choice between Pentium D 820 and E-300, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

Vote for your favorite

Do you think we are right or mistaken in our choice? Vote by clicking "Like" button near your favorite CPU.


Intel Pentium D 820
Pentium D 820
AMD E-300
E-300

Similar processor comparisons

We picked several similar comparisons of processors in the same market segment and performance relatively close to those reviewed on this page.

Community ratings

Here you can see how users rate the processors, as well as rate them yourself.


3.1 171 vote

Rate Pentium D 820 on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
2.4 303 votes

Rate E-300 on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Questions & comments

Here you can ask a question about Pentium D 820 or E-300, agree or disagree with our judgements, or report an error or mismatch.