Pentium B950 vs E2-2000

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Primary details

Comparing E2-2000 and Pentium B950 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated2765
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD E-SeriesIntel Pentium
Power efficiencyno data1.69
Architecture codenameZacate (2011−2013)Sandy Bridge (2011−2013)
Release date6 January 2013 (11 years ago)13 June 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$134

Detailed specifications

E2-2000 and Pentium B950 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 speedno data2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed1.75 GHz2.1 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 2.0
Bus rateno data4 × 5 GT/s
Multiplierno data21
L1 cache64K (per core)128 KB
L2 cache512K (per core)512 KB
L3 cache0 KB2 MB (shared)
Chip lithography40 nm32 nm
Die size75 mm2131 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data85 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)100 °Cno data
Number of transistorsno data504 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on E2-2000 and Pentium B950 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)
SocketFT1 BGA 413-BallPGA988
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by E2-2000 and Pentium B950. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX(+), SSE(1,2,3,3S,4A), AMD-VIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
FMA-+
PowerNow+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
My WiFino data-
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Flex Memory Accessno data+
Demand Based Switchingno data-
FDIno data+
Fast Memory Accessno data+

Security technologies

E2-2000 and Pentium B950 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDBno data+
Anti-Theftno data-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by E2-2000 and Pentium B950 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data-
VT-xno data-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by E2-2000 and Pentium B950. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR3
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 cardAMD Radeon HD 7340Intel® HD Graphics for 2nd Generation Intel® Processors
Graphics max frequencyno data1.1 GHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of E2-2000 and Pentium B950 integrated GPUs.

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

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by E2-2000 and Pentium B950.

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.

E2-2000 496
Pentium B950 995
+101%

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.

E2-2000 144
Pentium B950 309
+115%

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.

E2-2000 270
Pentium B950 505
+87%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 January 2013 13 June 2011
Chip lithography 40 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 35 Watt

E2-2000 has an age advantage of 1 year, and 94.4% lower power consumption.

Pentium B950, on the other hand, has a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between E2-2000 and Pentium B950. We've got no test results to judge.


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