Pentium 917 vs Celeron 900

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Primary details

Comparing Celeron 900 and Pentium 917 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking3152not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Seriesno dataIntel Pentium
Power efficiency0.70no data
Architecture codenameno dataSandy Bridge (2011−2013)
Release date1 January 2009 (15 years ago)no data

Detailed specifications

Celeron 900 and Pentium 917 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 speed2.2 GHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1.8 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 2.0
Bus rateno data4 × 5 GT/s
L1 cacheno data128 KB
L2 cacheno data512 KB
L3 cache1 MB L2 Cache2 MB
Chip lithography45 nm32 nm
Die sizeno data131 mm2
Maximum core temperature105 °Cno data
Number of transistorsno data504 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Celeron 900 and Pentium 917 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)
SocketPGA478no data
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt17 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron 900 and Pentium 917. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

FMA-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)-+
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data

Security technologies

Celeron 900 and Pentium 917 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 Celeron 900 and Pentium 917 are enumerated here.

VT-x-no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron 900 and Pentium 917. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3-1333
Maximum memory sizeno data16 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data21.335 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 45 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 17 Watt

Pentium 917 has a 40.6% more advanced lithography process, and 105.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Celeron 900 and Pentium 917. We've got no test results to judge.


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