Intel Pentium B940: specs and benchmarks

Intel started Intel Pentium B940 sales 19 June 2011 at a recommended price of $134. This is Sandy Bridge architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 32 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2000 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is PGA988 processor with a TDP of 35 Watt. It supports DDR3-1066, DDR3-1333 memory.

It provides poor benchmark performance at 0.95 percent of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X.

Of Pentium B940 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture and sales start time and price.

Pentium B940's quantitative parameters such as cores and threads number, clocks, manufacturing process, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of Pentium B940's performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Information on Pentium B940 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one.

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium B940. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Pentium B940 technologies aimed at raising security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium B940 are enumerated here.

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Pentium B940.

General parameters of GPU integrated into Pentium B940.

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium B940's integrated GPU.

Specifications and connection of Pentium B940's supported peripherals.

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Pentium B940. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Let's see how good Pentium B940 is for gaming compared with game system requirements. Remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.