Pentium E5400: specs and benchmarks

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Pentium E5400
2009
2 cores / 2 threads, 65 Watt
0.62

Pentium E5400 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.62% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

Intel started Pentium E5400 sales 18 January 2009 at a recommended price of $55. This is a Wolfdale architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 45 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2.7 and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is LGA775 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt. It supports DDR1, DDR2, DDR3 memory.

Primary details

Pentium E5400 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking2794
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation8.46
Market segmentDesktop processor
Power efficiency0.90of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameWolfdale (2008−2010)
Release date18 January 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$55of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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 speed2.7 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed2.7 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache64 KB (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache2 MB (shared)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache0 KBof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography45 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size82 mm2
Maximum core temperature74 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
Number of transistors228 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
VID voltage range0.85V-1.3625V

Compatibility

Information on Pentium E5400 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)
SocketLGA775
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Pentium E5400. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

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

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-d-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Pentium E5400's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR1, DDR2, DDR3

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Pentium E5400.

Integrated graphics cardOn certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version2.0of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Pentium E5400. 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.

Pentium E5400 0.62

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 E5400 978

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.

Pentium E5400 311

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.

Pentium E5400 507

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Pentium E5400's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Pentium E5400 is Athlon II X2 240e, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 4 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Pentium E5400:

Pentium E5400 100
E2-3200 98.39

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Pentium E5400, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Pentium E5400 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 2060 configurations using Pentium E5400 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.6% (13/2060)
RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4080
0.1% (2/2060)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.05% (1/2060)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.1% (2/2060)
RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 3080
0.05% (1/2060)
RTX 4060 Ti GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
0.05% (1/2060)
RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
0.05% (1/2060)
RTX 4060 GeForce RTX 4060
0.1% (2/2060)
GTX 1080 Ti GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
0.05% (1/2060)

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