E-300 vs Pentium M 780
Aggregate performance score
Pentium M 780 outperforms E-300 by a moderate 16% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Contents
Primary details
Comparing processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 3464 | 3507 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | Pentium M | AMD E-Series |
| Power efficiency | 0.88 | 1.13 |
| Designer | Intel | AMD |
| Manufacturer | Intel | no data |
| Architecture codename | Dothan (2004−2005) | Zacate (2011−2013) |
| Release date | 25 July 2005 (20 years ago) | 22 August 2011 (14 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Pentium M 780 and E-300 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 cores | 1 (Single-Core) | 2 (Dual-core) |
| Threads | 1 | 2 |
| Base clock speed | 2.26 GHz | no data |
| Boost clock speed | 0.03 GHz | 1.3 GHz |
| Bus rate | 533 MHz | no data |
| L1 cache | 32 KB | 64K (per core) |
| L2 cache | 2 MB | 512K (per core) |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | 0 KB |
| Chip lithography | 90 nm | 40 nm |
| Die size | 87 mm2 | 75 mm2 |
| Maximum core temperature | 100 °C | no data |
| Number of transistors | 144 million | no data |
| 64 bit support | - | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | - |
| VID voltage range | 1.26V-1.404V | no data |
Compatibility
Information on Pentium M 780 and E-300 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 configuration | 1 | 1 |
| Socket | PPGA478, H-PBGA479 | FT1 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 27 Watt | 18 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium M 780 and E-300. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | no data | MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SVM |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | no data |
| Turbo Boost Technology | - | no data |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | - | no data |
| Idle States | - | no data |
| Demand Based Switching | - | no data |
| PAE | 32 Bit | no data |
| FSB parity | - | no data |
Security technologies
Pentium M 780 and E-300 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | - | no data |
| EDB | + | no data |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium M 780 and E-300 are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | - | + |
| VT-x | - | no data |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium M 780 and E-300. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR2 | DDR3 |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | On certain motherboards (Chipset feature) | AMD Radeon HD 6310 |
Synthetic benchmarks
Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating.
wPrime 32
wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.
3DMark06 CPU
3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 0.22 | 0.19 |
| Recency | 25 July 2005 | 22 August 2011 |
| Physical cores | 1 | 2 |
| Threads | 1 | 2 |
| Chip lithography | 90 nm | 40 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 27 Watt | 18 Watt |
Pentium M 780 has a 15.8% higher aggregate performance score.
E-300, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, a 125% more advanced lithography process, and 50% lower power consumption.
The Intel Pentium M 780 is our recommended choice as it beats the AMD E-300 in performance tests.
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