Celeron U3600 vs Xeon E5450

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Primary details

Comparing Xeon E5450 and Celeron U3600 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2075not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentServerLaptop
Seriesno dataIntel Celeron
Power efficiency1.93no data
Architecture codenameno dataWestmere (2010−2011)
Release date1 October 2007 (17 years ago)11 January 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Xeon E5450 and Celeron U3600 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 coresno data2 (Dual-core)
Threadsno data2
Base clock speed3 GHz1.2 GHz
Boost clock speedno data0.1 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 1.0
Bus rateno data1 × 2.5 GT/s
Multiplierno data9
L1 cacheno data128 KB
L2 cacheno data512 KB
L3 cache12 MB L2 Cache2 MB
Chip lithography45 nm32 nm
Die sizeno data81 mm2
Maximum core temperature67 °C105 °C
Number of transistorsno data382 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage range0.85V-1.35Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E5450 and Celeron U3600 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)
SocketLGA771BGA1288
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt18 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5450 and Celeron U3600. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

FMA-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Turbo Boost Technology--
Hyper-Threading Technology--
Idle States++
Thermal Monitoring++
Flex Memory Accessno data+
Demand Based Switching+no data
PAEno data36 Bit
FDIno data+
Fast Memory Accessno data+
FSB parity+no data

Security technologies

Xeon E5450 and Celeron U3600 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT--
EDB++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E5450 and Celeron U3600 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-x++
EPT-no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon E5450 and Celeron U3600. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3-800
Maximum memory sizeno data8 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data12.799 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 data500 MHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Xeon E5450 and Celeron U3600 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon E5450 and Celeron U3600.

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.

Xeon E5450 2580
+346%
Celeron U3600 579

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2007 11 January 2011
Chip lithography 45 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 18 Watt

Celeron U3600 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 40.6% more advanced lithography process, and 344.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Xeon E5450 and Celeron U3600. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Xeon E5450 is a server/workstation processor while Celeron U3600 is a notebook one.


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