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Intel Pentium E5700: specs and benchmarks
Combined performance score
Summary
Intel started Pentium E5700 sales 8 August 2010 at a recommended price of $110. 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 3000 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is LGA775 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt. It supports DDR1, DDR2, DDR3 memory.
It provides poor benchmark performance at 0.71% of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.
General info
Pentium E5700 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | 2565 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Value for money | 2.33 | |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | |
| Architecture codename | Wolfdale (2008−2010) | |
| Release date | 8 August 2010 (13 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $110 | of 305 (Core i7-870) |
| Current price | $66 (0.6x MSRP) | of 17802 (Threadripper PRO 7995WX) |
Value for money
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 cores | 2 (Dual-core) | |
| Threads | 2 | |
| Base clock speed | 3 GHz | of 4.7 (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 3 GHz | of 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 64 KB (per core) | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 2 MB (shared) | of 36 (Apple M2 Max) |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | of 786432 (EPYC 7373X) |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | of 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 82 mm2 | |
| Maximum core temperature | 74 °C | of 110 (Atom x7-E3950) |
| Number of transistors | 228 million | of 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | |
| Unlocked multiplier | No | |
| VID voltage range | 0.85V-1.3625V |
Compatibility
Information on Pentium E5700 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 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | LGA775 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 65 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Pentium E5700. 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 | - | |
| Status | Discontinued |
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 E5700's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR1, DDR2, DDR3 | of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940HS) |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 2.0 | of 5 (Core i9-12900K) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Pentium E5700. 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.
Benchmark coverage: 68%
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%
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%
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Relative perfomance
Overall Pentium E5700 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Pentium E5700 is A4-3400, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Pentium E5700, according to our PC configuration statistics.
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These are the fastest graphics cards for Pentium E5700 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 4647 configurations based on Pentium E5700 in our database.
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