Pentium 4 HT 3.40 vs Xeon E5450

Primary details

Comparing Xeon E5450 and Pentium 4 HT 3.40 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2078not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentServerDesktop processor
Power efficiency1.93no data
Architecture codenameno dataNorthwood (2002−2004)
Release date1 October 2007 (17 years ago)February 2004 (20 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Xeon E5450 and Pentium 4 HT 3.40 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 data1 (Single-Core)
Threadsno data2
Base clock speed3 GHzno data
Boost clock speedno data3.4 GHz
L1 cacheno data8 KB
L2 cacheno data512 KB
L3 cache12 MB L2 Cache0 KB
Chip lithography45 nm130 nm
Die sizeno data131 mm2
Maximum core temperature67 °Cno data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data68 °C
Number of transistorsno data55 million
64 bit support+-
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage range0.85V-1.35Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E5450 and Pentium 4 HT 3.40 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
SocketLGA771478
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt89 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5450 and Pentium 4 HT 3.40. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Demand Based Switching+no data
FSB parity+no data

Security technologies

Xeon E5450 and Pentium 4 HT 3.40 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 Xeon E5450 and Pentium 4 HT 3.40 are enumerated here.

VT-x+no data
EPT-no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon E5450 and Pentium 4 HT 3.40. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR1, DDR2

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 45 nm 130 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 89 Watt

Xeon E5450 has a 188.9% more advanced lithography process, and 11.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Xeon E5450 and Pentium 4 HT 3.40. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Xeon E5450 is a server/workstation processor while Pentium 4 HT 3.40 is a desktop one.


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