Pentium 2129Y: specs and benchmarks
Summary
Intel started Pentium 2129Y sales 1 September 2012 at a recommended price of $150. This is an Ivy Bridge architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at home systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 22 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 1100 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is FCBGA1023 processor with a TDP of 10 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.
General info
Pentium 2129Y processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | Intel Pentium | |
| Architecture codename | Ivy Bridge (2012−2013) | |
| Release date | 1 September 2012 (11 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $150 | of 305 (Core i7-870) |
| Current price | $35 (0.2x MSRP) | of 15701 (Xeon Platinum 8276L) |
Technical specs
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 2 (Dual-core) | |
| Threads | 2 | |
| Base clock speed | 1.1 GHz | of 4.7 (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 1.1 GHz | of 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 64K (per core) | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 256K (per core) | of 98304 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX) |
| L3 cache | 2 MB (shared) | of 768 (EPYC 7373X) |
| Chip lithography | 22 nm | of 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 118 mm2 | |
| Maximum core temperature | 105 °C | of 110 (Atom x7-E3950) |
| Number of transistors | 1,400 million | of 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | |
| Unlocked multiplier | No |
Compatibility
Information on Pentium 2129Y compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 configuration | 1 | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | FCBGA1023 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 10 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Pentium 2129Y. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2 | |
| AES-NI | - | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
| My WiFi | + | |
| Turbo Boost Technology | - | |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | - | |
| Idle States | + | |
| Thermal Monitoring | + | |
| Flex Memory Access | + | |
| Demand Based Switching | - | |
| FDI | + | |
| Fast Memory Access | + | |
| Status | Discontinued |
Security technologies
Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | - | |
| EDB | + | |
| Anti-Theft | - |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| VT-d | - | |
| VT-x | + | |
| EPT | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Pentium 2129Y's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 | |
| Maximum memory size | 32 GB | of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3) |
| Max memory channels | 2 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 25.6 GB/s | of 460.8 (EPYC 9124) |
| ECC memory support | - |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Pentium 2129Y.
| Integrated graphics card | Intel® HD Graphics for 3rd Generation Intel® Processors | |
| Quick Sync Video | - | |
| Clear Video | - | |
| Clear Video HD | - | |
| Graphics max frequency | 850 MHz | |
| InTru 3D | - |
Graphics interfaces
Available interfaces and connections of Pentium 2129Y's integrated GPU.
| Number of displays supported | 3 | |
| eDP | + | |
| DisplayPort | + | |
| HDMI | + | |
| SDVO | + | |
| CRT | + |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Pentium 2129Y. Overall benchmark performance 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.
Benchmark coverage: 68%
Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core
Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.
Benchmark coverage: 20%
Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.
Benchmark coverage: 19%
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.
Benchmark coverage: 17%
Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.
Benchmark coverage: 15%
Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core
Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.
Benchmark coverage: 15%
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core
Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.
Benchmark coverage: 14%
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.
Benchmark coverage: 13%
WinRAR 4.0
WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.
Benchmark coverage: 13%
x264 encoding pass 1
x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.
Benchmark coverage: 13%
x264 encoding pass 2
x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.
Benchmark coverage: 13%
Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core
Benchmark coverage: 5%
Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core
Benchmark coverage: 5%
Geekbench 2
Benchmark coverage: 5%
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