Pentium D 960: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Pentium D 960 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.51% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
Summary
Intel started Pentium D 960 sales 23 April 2006 at a recommended price of $523. This is a Presler architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 65 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3.6 and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is LGA775,PLGA775 processor with a TDP of 130 Watt and a maximum temperature of 69 °C. It supports DDR1, DDR2, DDR3 memory.
Primary details
Pentium D 960 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 2870 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | |
| Power efficiency | 0.37 | of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U) |
| Architecture codename | Presler (2005−2007) | |
| Release date | 23 April 2006 (18 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $523 | of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance per price, higher is better.
Detailed specifications
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 | 3.6 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.6 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 16 KB (per core) | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 2 MB (per die) | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 65 nm | of 3 nm (Core Ultra 9 285K) |
| Die size | 2x 81 mm2 | |
| Maximum case temperature (TCase) | 69 °C | of 105 °C (Core i7-5950HQ) |
| Number of transistors | 376 million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | |
| VID voltage range | 1.2V-1.3375V |
Compatibility
Information on Pentium D 960 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 (Xeon Platinum 8454H) |
| Socket | LGA775,PLGA775 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 130 Watt | of 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Pentium D 960. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
| Turbo Boost Technology | - | |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | - | |
| Idle States | + | |
| Demand Based Switching | - | |
| PAE | 32 Bit | |
| FSB parity | - |
Security technologies
Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | - | |
| EDB | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| VT-d | - | |
| VT-x | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Pentium D 960's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR1, DDR2, DDR3 |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Pentium D 960.
| Integrated graphics card | On certain motherboards (Chipset feature) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Pentium D 960. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
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.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Pentium D 960 is Athlon 64 X2 5200+, which is faster by 6% and higher by 32 positions in our ranking.
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Similar processors
Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Pentium D 960, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Pentium D 960 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 65 configurations using Pentium D 960 in our database.
