Intel Pentium B940: specs and benchmarks

General info
Technical specs
Technologies
Memory
Integrated video card
Benchmarks
Gaming
AMD equivalent
Advices and comments
Summary
Intel started Intel Pentium B940 sales 15 May 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 2.00 GHz 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 3.65 percent of a leader's which is AMD EPYC 7742.
General info
Of Pentium B940 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture and sales start time and price.
Value for money (0-100)
17.22
Type
Laptop
Series
Intel Pentium
Achitecture codename
Sandy Bridge
Release date
15 May 2011
Launch price (MSRP)
$134
Technical specs
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.
Number of cores
2
Number of threads
2
Die size
149 mm2
64 bit support
+
Compatibility
Information on Pentium B940 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one.
Socket
PGA988
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium B940. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
Instruction set extensions
Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
FMA
+
vPro
-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)
+
My WiFi
-
Turbo Boost
-
Hyper-Threading
-
Idle States
+
Thermal Monitoring
+
Flex Memory Access
+
Demand Based Switching
-
FDI
+
Fast Memory Access
+
Security technologies
Pentium B940 technologies aimed at raising security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
TXT
-
EDB
+
Anti-Theft
-
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium B940 are enumerated here.
VT-d
-
VT-x
-
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Pentium B940.
Graphics specifications
General parameters of GPU integrated into Pentium B940.
Integrated graphics
Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) (650 - 1100 MHz)
Clear Video
-
Clear Video HD
-
Graphics max frequency
1.1 GHz
InTru 3D
-
Graphics interfaces
Available interfaces and connections of Pentium B940's integrated GPU.
Number of displays supported
2
eDP
+
DisplayPort
+
HDMI
+
SDVO
+
CRT
+
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of Pentium B940's supported peripherals.
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Pentium B940. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
3.65
3DMark06 CPU
2034
Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core
2610
Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core
5067
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core
1.6
Passmark
1727
Game benchmarks
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.
Relative perfomance
Overall Pentium B940 performance compared to nearest competitors. All CPU types participate.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Pentium B940 from AMD is Turion 64 MT-40, which is faster by 1% and higher by 3 positions in our rating.