Pentium 987 vs Core 2 Duo SU7300

Primary details

Comparing Core 2 Duo SU7300 and Pentium 987 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Core 2 DuoIntel Pentium
Architecture codenamePenryn (2008−2011)Sandy Bridge (2011−2013)
Release date1 September 2009 (15 years ago)1 February 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$134

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Duo SU7300 and Pentium 987 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 speed1.3 GHz1.5 GHz
Boost clock speed1.3 GHz1.5 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 2.0
Bus rate800 MHz4 × 5 GT/s
Multiplierno data15
L1 cacheno data64K (per core)
L2 cache3 MB256K (per core)
L3 cache3 MB Intel® Smart Cache2 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nm32 nm
Die size107 mm2131 mm2
Maximum core temperature105 °C100 °C
Number of transistors410 Million504 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Duo SU7300 and Pentium 987 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)
SocketBGA956FCBGA1023
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt17 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Duo SU7300 and Pentium 987. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
FMA-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
My WiFino data-
Turbo Boost Technology--
Hyper-Threading Technology--
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring++
Flex Memory Accessno data+
Demand Based Switching--
FDIno data+
Fast Memory Accessno data+

Security technologies

Core 2 Duo SU7300 and Pentium 987 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+-
EDB++
Anti-Theftno data-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core 2 Duo SU7300 and Pentium 987 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-x+-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core 2 Duo SU7300 and Pentium 987. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3
Maximum memory sizeno data16.38 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 for 2nd Generation Intel® Processors
Graphics max frequencyno data1 GHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Core 2 Duo SU7300 and Pentium 987 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data2
eDPno data+
DisplayPort-+
HDMI-+
SDVOno data+
CRTno data+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Core 2 Duo SU7300 and Pentium 987.

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.



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.

Core 2 Duo SU7300 171
Pentium 987 228
+33.3%

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.

Core 2 Duo SU7300 291
Pentium 987 392
+34.7%

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Core 2 Duo SU7300 1178
Pentium 987 1487
+26.2%

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Core 2 Duo SU7300 61.3
Pentium 987 48
+27.7%

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Core 2 Duo SU7300 1
Pentium 987 1
+46.8%

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Core 2 Duo SU7300 0.1
Pentium 987 0.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2009 1 February 2013
Chip lithography 45 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 17 Watt

Core 2 Duo SU7300 has 70% lower power consumption.

Pentium 987, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 40.6% more advanced lithography process.

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