Celeron P4600 vs Pentium Dual T3400

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Primary details

Comparing Pentium Dual Core T3400 and Celeron P4600 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated2839
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Pentium Dual CoreIntel Celeron
Power efficiencyno data1.43
Architecture codenameMerom (2006−2008)Westmere (2010−2011)
Release date1 October 2008 (16 years ago)28 March 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium Dual Core T3400 and Celeron P4600 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 speedno data2 GHz
Boost clock speed2.16 GHz0.1 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 1.0
Bus rate667 MHz1 × 2.5 GT/s
Multiplierno data15
L1 cacheno data128 KB
L2 cache1 MB512 KB
L3 cacheno data2 MB
Chip lithography65 nm32 nm
Die size143 mm281 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data90 °C
Number of transistors291 Million382 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Dual Core T3400 and Celeron P4600 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 configurationno data1 (Uniprocessor)
SocketPPGA478PGA988
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Dual Core T3400 and Celeron P4600. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

FMA-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Flex Memory Accessno data+
PAEno data36 Bit
FDIno data+
Fast Memory Accessno data+

Security technologies

Pentium Dual Core T3400 and Celeron P4600 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDBno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Dual Core T3400 and Celeron P4600 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Dual Core T3400 and Celeron P4600. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3-800, DDR3-1066
Maximum memory sizeno data8 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data17.051 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel® HD Graphics for Previous Generation Intel® Processors
Clear Videono data+
Graphics max frequencyno data667 MHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Dual Core T3400 and Celeron P4600 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Dual Core T3400 and Celeron P4600.

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.

Pentium Dual T3400 653
Celeron P4600 846
+29.6%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2008 28 March 2010
Chip lithography 65 nm 32 nm

Celeron P4600 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 103.1% more advanced lithography process.

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