Pentium P6300 vs Core 2 Duo E4500

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Primary details

Comparing Core 2 Duo E4500 and Pentium P6300 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated2856
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataIntel Pentium
Power efficiencyno data1.43
Architecture codenameAllendale (2006−2009)Arrandale (2010−2011)
Release dateJuly 2007 (17 years ago)9 January 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Duo E4500 and Pentium P6300 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 speed2.2 GHz2.27 GHz
Boost clock speed2.2 GHz0.27 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 1.0
Bus rate800 MHz1 × 2.5 GT/s
Multiplierno data17
L1 cache64 KB64K (per core)
L2 cache2 MB256K (per core)
L3 cache0 KB3 MB (shared)
Chip lithography65 nm32 nm
Die size111 mm281+114 mm2
Maximum core temperature73 °C90 °C
Number of transistors167 million384 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage range0.85V-1.5Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Duo E4500 and Pentium P6300 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 configuration11 (Uniprocessor)
SocketLGA775PGA988
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Duo E4500 and Pentium P6300. 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--
PAEno data36 Bit
FDIno data+
Fast Memory Accessno data+
FSB parity-no data

Security technologies

Core 2 Duo E4500 and Pentium P6300 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT--
EDB++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core 2 Duo E4500 and Pentium P6300 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-x--

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core 2 Duo E4500 and Pentium P6300. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR1, DDR2, DDR3DDR3
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 Core 2 Duo E4500 and Pentium P6300 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Core 2 Duo E4500 and Pentium P6300.

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.

Core 2 Duo E4500 734
Pentium P6300 834
+13.6%

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 65 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 35 Watt

Pentium P6300 has a 103.1% more advanced lithography process, and 85.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Core 2 Duo E4500 and Pentium P6300. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Core 2 Duo E4500 is a desktop processor while Pentium P6300 is a notebook one.


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