Core 2 Duo SL9400 vs Pentium Silver J5040

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Silver J5040 and Core 2 Duo SL9400 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1890not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.98no data
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataIntel Core 2 Duo
Power efficiency19.42no data
Architecture codenameGemini Lake Refresh (2019)Penryn (2008−2011)
Release date4 November 2019 (5 years ago)20 August 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$161$284

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver J5040 and Core 2 Duo SL9400 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads42
Base clock speed2 GHz1.86 GHz
Boost clock speed3.2 GHz1.86 GHz
Bus rateno data1066 MHz
L1 cache56 KB (per core)no data
L2 cache4 MB (shared)6 MB
L3 cache4 MB6 MB L2 Cache
Chip lithography14 nm45 nm
Die size93 mm2107 mm2
Maximum core temperature105 °C105 °C
Number of transistorsno data410 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility+-
VID voltage rangeno data1.05V - 1.15V

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver J5040 and Core 2 Duo SL9400 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 configuration1no data
SocketFCBGA1090BGA956
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt17 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Core 2 Duo SL9400. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2no data
AES-NI+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shift-no data
Turbo Boost Technology--
Hyper-Threading Technology--
Idle States+-
Thermal Monitoring+-
Smart Response-no data
Demand Based Switchingno data-
GPIO+no data
Turbo Boost Max 3.0-no data
FSB parityno data-

Security technologies

Pentium Silver J5040 and Core 2 Duo SL9400 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+
EDB++
Secure Key+no data
MPX+-
Identity Protection+-
SGXYes with Intel® MEno data
OS Guard+no data
Anti-Theft-no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Core 2 Duo SL9400 are enumerated here.

VT-d+no data
VT-x++
EPT+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Core 2 Duo SL9400. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4no data
Maximum memory size8 GBno data
Max memory channels2no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardIntel UHD Graphics 605no data
Max video memory8 GBno data
Quick Sync Video+-
Graphics max frequency800 MHzno data
Execution Units18no data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Silver J5040 and Core 2 Duo SL9400 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported3no data
eDP+no data
DisplayPort+-
HDMI+-
MIPI-DSI+no data

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Core 2 Duo SL9400 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support+no data
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2160@30Hzno data
Max resolution over eDP4096x2160@60Hzno data
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096x2160@60Hzno data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Core 2 Duo SL9400 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12no data
OpenGL4.4no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Core 2 Duo SL9400.

PCIe version2.0no data
PCI Express lanes6no data
USB revision2.0/3.0no data
Total number of SATA ports2no data
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports2no data
Number of USB ports8no data
Integrated LAN-no data
UART+no data

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 Silver J5040 3261
+330%
Core 2 Duo SL9400 759

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.

Pentium Silver J5040 2688
+25.4%
Core 2 Duo SL9400 2144

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.

Pentium Silver J5040 8279
+115%
Core 2 Duo SL9400 3850

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.

Pentium Silver J5040 4296
+230%
Core 2 Duo SL9400 1300

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.

Pentium Silver J5040 15.29
+182%
Core 2 Duo SL9400 43.12

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.

Pentium Silver J5040 3
+214%
Core 2 Duo SL9400 1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 November 2019 20 August 2008
Physical cores 4 2
Threads 4 2
Chip lithography 14 nm 45 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 17 Watt

Pentium Silver J5040 has an age advantage of 11 years, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, a 221.4% more advanced lithography process, and 70% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Pentium Silver J5040 and Core 2 Duo SL9400. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Pentium Silver J5040 is a desktop processor while Core 2 Duo SL9400 is a notebook one.


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