Atom x5-E3940 vs Pentium Dual T2370

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Dual Core T2370 and Atom x5-E3940 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated2303
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Pentium Dual Core5x Intel Atom
Power efficiencyno data11.67
Architecture codenameMerom (2006−2008)Apollo Lake (2014−2016)
Release date1 January 2008 (16 years ago)30 August 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium Dual Core T2370 and Atom x5-E3940 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads24
Base clock speedno data1.6 GHz
Boost clock speed1.73 GHz1.8 GHz
Bus rate533 MHzno data
L1 cacheno data56K (per core)
L2 cache1 MB2 MB (shared)
L3 cacheno data0 KB
Chip lithography65 nm14 nm
Die size143 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature100 °Cno data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data103 °C
Number of transistors291 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Dual Core T2370 and Atom x5-E3940 compatibility with other computer components: 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 configurationno data1 (Uniprocessor)
SocketPPGA478Intel BGA 1296
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt10 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Dual Core T2370 and Atom x5-E3940. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+

Security technologies

Pentium Dual Core T2370 and Atom x5-E3940 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Dual Core T2370 and Atom x5-E3940 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Dual Core T2370 and Atom x5-E3940. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3-1866
Maximum memory sizeno data8 GB

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel HD Graphics 500

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Dual Core T2370 and Atom x5-E3940.

PCIe versionno data2.0
PCI Express lanesno data4

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score 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.

Pentium Dual T2370 455
Atom x5-E3940 1953
+329%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 January 2008 30 August 2014
Physical cores 2 4
Threads 2 4
Chip lithography 65 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 10 Watt

Atom x5-E3940 has an age advantage of 6 years, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, a 364.3% more advanced lithography process, and 250% lower power consumption.

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