Pentium E5400: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregated performance score

Pentium E5400
2009
2 cores / 2 threads
0.63

It provides poor benchmark performance at 0.63% of a leader's which is Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

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Summary

Intel started Pentium E5400 sales on January 2009 at a recommended price of $55. This is a Wolfdale architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 45 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2700 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is LGA775 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt. It supports DDR1, DDR2, DDR3 memory.

General info

Pentium E5400 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance ranking2633
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money8.46
Market segmentDesktop processor
Architecture codenameWolfdale (2008−2010)
Release dateJanuary 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$55of 305 (Core i7-870)
Current price$8.86 (0.2x MSRP)of 17802 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX)

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
Base clock speed2.7 GHzof 4.7 (Ryzen 9 7900X)
Boost clock speed2.7 GHzof 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache64 KB (per core)of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache2 MB (shared)of 96 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX)
L3 cache0 KBof 786432 (EPYC 7773X)
Chip lithography45 nmof 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size82 mm2
Maximum core temperature74 °Cof 110 (Core Ultra 7 165H)
Number of transistors228 millionof 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
Unlocked multiplierNo
VID voltage range0.85V-1.3625V

Compatibility

Information on Pentium E5400 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 (Xeon Platinum 8160M)
SocketLGA775
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Pentium E5400. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Turbo Boost Technology-
Hyper-Threading Technology-
Idle States+
Thermal Monitoring+
Demand Based Switching-
StatusDiscontinued

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-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Pentium E5400's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR1, DDR2, DDR3

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Pentium E5400. 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 E5400 0.63

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 E5400 971

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Pentium E5400 296

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Pentium E5400 481

Gaming performance

Relative performance

Overall Pentium E5400 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.


Pentium E5400 100
A4-3300 98.41
E2-3200 98.41

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Pentium E5400 is Athlon 64 FX-74, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.

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Here are some closest AMD rivals to Pentium E5400:

Pentium E5400 100
A4-3300 98.41
E2-3200 98.41

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 E5400, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Pentium E5400 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 2006 configurations based on Pentium E5400 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.5% (10/2006)
RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4080
0.1% (2/2006)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.05% (1/2006)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.2% (4/2006)
RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 3090
0.1% (3/2006)
RTX 4060 Ti GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
0.05% (1/2006)
RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
0.05% (1/2006)
GTX 1080 Ti GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
0.05% (1/2006)
RTX 3060 GeForce RTX 3060
0.4% (8/2006)
RX 5700 XT Radeon RX 5700 XT
0.05% (1/2006)

User Ratings

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