Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2160: specs and benchmarks

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Pentium Dual-Core E2160
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Year of release 2007
Performance 0.51

Summary

Intel started Pentium Dual-Core E2160 sales on June 2007. This is a Conroe 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 1800 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is Intel Socket 775 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt. It supports DDR1, DDR2, DDR3 memory.

It provides poor benchmark performance at

0.51%

of a leader's which is AMD EPYC 9654.

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General info

Pentium Dual-Core E2160 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance ranking2663
Value for money0.39
Market segmentDesktop processor
Architecture codenameConroe (2006−2007)
Release dateJune 2007 (16 years old)
Current price$108 of 15854 (Xeon Platinum 8276L)
Value for money

Performance per price, higher is better.

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 cores2 (Dual-core)
Threads2
Boost clock speed1.8 GHzof 6 (Core i9-13900KS)
L1 cache64 KB (per core)of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache1 MB (shared)of 36 (Apple M2 Max)
L3 cache0 KBof 786432 (EPYC 7373X)
Chip lithography65 nmof 4 (Ryzen 9 7940HS)
Die size77 mm2
Number of transistors105 millionof 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
Unlocked multiplier-

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Dual-Core E2160 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 configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
Socket775
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Pentium Dual-Core E2160. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Pentium Dual-Core E2160's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR1, DDR2, DDR3of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940HS)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Pentium Dual-Core E2160. 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.

Pentium Dual-Core E2160 0.51

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%

Pentium Dual-Core E2160 641

Gaming performance

Relative perfomance

Overall Pentium Dual-Core E2160 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.


Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2160 100

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Pentium Dual-Core E2160 is Athlon 64 FX-53, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.

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Here are some closest AMD rivals to Pentium Dual-Core E2160:

Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2160 100

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Athlon 64 X2 4000+Athlon 64X2 4000+
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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Pentium Dual-Core E2160, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Pentium Dual-Core E2160 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 1034 configurations based on Pentium Dual-Core E2160 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.6% (6/1034)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.1% (1/1034)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.2% (2/1034)
RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 3090
0.1% (1/1034)
RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
0.2% (2/1034)
RTX 8000 Quadro RTX 8000
0.2% (2/1034)
TITAN Xp TITAN Xp
0.1% (1/1034)
GTX 1080 Ti GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
0.1% (1/1034)
RTX 3060 GeForce RTX 3060
0.3% (3/1034)

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