Pentium P6100: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Pentium P6100 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.55% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
Summary
Intel started Pentium P6100 sales 26 September 2010 at a recommended price of $12. This is an Arrandale architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 32 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2000 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is PGA988 processor with a TDP of 35 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.
Primary details
Pentium P6100 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 2842 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | Intel Pentium | |
| Power efficiency | 1.49 | of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U) |
| Architecture codename | Arrandale (2010−2011) | |
| Release date | 26 September 2010 (14 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $12 | of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L) |
Detailed specifications
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 | 2 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X) |
| Boost clock speed | 2 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Bus type | DMI 1.0 | |
| Bus rate | 1 × 2.5 GT/s | |
| Multiplier | 15 | of 42 (Core i7-7700K) |
| L1 cache | 64K (per core) | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 256K (per core) | |
| L3 cache | 3 MB (shared) | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 32 nm | of 3 nm (Core Ultra 9 285K) |
| Die size | 81+114 mm2 | |
| Maximum core temperature | 90 °C | of 110 °C (Core Ultra 9 185H) |
| Number of transistors | 384 million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - |
Compatibility
Information on Pentium P6100 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 (Uniprocessor) | of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H) |
| Socket | PGA988 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Pentium P6100. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| FMA | + | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
| Turbo Boost Technology | - | |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | - | |
| Idle States | + | |
| Thermal Monitoring | + | |
| Flex Memory Access | + | |
| Demand Based Switching | - | |
| PAE | 36 Bit | |
| FDI | + | |
| Fast Memory Access | + |
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-x | - |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Pentium P6100's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 | |
| Maximum memory size | 8 GB | of 6 TiB (EPYC 9654) |
| Max memory channels | 2 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 17.051 GB/s | of 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9654) |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Pentium P6100.
| Integrated graphics card | Intel HD Graphics for Previous Generation Intel Processors | |
| Clear Video | + | |
| Graphics max frequency | 667 MHz |
Graphics interfaces
Available interfaces and connections of Pentium P6100's integrated GPU.
| Number of displays supported | 2 |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 2.0 | of 5.0 (EPYC 9655P) |
| PCI Express lanes | 16 | of 128 (EPYC 9655P) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Pentium P6100. 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.
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.
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.
Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core
Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.
Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.
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.
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Pentium P6100 is Turion II N550, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 4 positions in our ranking.
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