Pentium B950 vs V-Series V140

Place in the ranking	3139	2784
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD V-Series	Intel Pentium
Power efficiency	1.02	1.70
Architecture codename	Champlain (2010−2011)	Sandy Bridge (2011−2013)
Release date	4 October 2010 (14 years ago)	19 June 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$134

Detailed specifications

V-Series V140 and Pentium B950 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	no data	2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.3 GHz	2.1 GHz
Bus type	no data	DMI 2.0
Bus rate	3200 MHz	4 × 5 GT/s
Multiplier	no data	21
L1 cache	128 KB	64K (per core)
L2 cache	512 KB	256K (per core)
L3 cache	no data	2 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	45 nm	32 nm
Die size	no data	131 mm²
Maximum core temperature	no data	85 °C
Number of transistors	no data	504 million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on V-Series V140 and Pentium B950 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	no data	1 (Uniprocessor)
Socket	S1	PGA988
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by V-Series V140 and Pentium B950. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	MMX, 3DNow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4A, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization	Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
FMA	-	+
VirusProtect	+	-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	no data	+
My WiFi	no data	-
Turbo Boost Technology	no data	-
Hyper-Threading Technology	no data	-
Idle States	no data	+
Thermal Monitoring	-	+
Flex Memory Access	no data	+
Demand Based Switching	no data	-
FDI	no data	+
Fast Memory Access	no data	+

Security technologies

V-Series V140 and Pentium B950 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	no data	-
EDB	no data	+
Anti-Theft	no data	-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by V-Series V140 and Pentium B950 are enumerated here.

AMD-V	+	-
VT-d	no data	-
VT-x	no data	-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by V-Series V140 and Pentium B950. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR3	DDR3
Maximum memory size	no data	16 GB
Max memory channels	no data	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	no data	21.335 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card	no data	Intel HD Graphics for 2nd Generation Intel Processors
Graphics max frequency	no data	1.1 GHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of V-Series V140 and Pentium B950 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported	no data	2
eDP	no data	+
DisplayPort	-	+
HDMI	-	+
SDVO	no data	+
CRT	no data	+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by V-Series V140 and Pentium B950.

PCIe version	no data	2.0
PCI Express lanes	no data	16

Synthetic benchmark performance

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. 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.

V-Series V140 0.27

Pentium B950 0.63
+133%

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.

V-Series V140 1913

Pentium B950 2730
+42.7%

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.

V-Series V140 990

Pentium B950 2145
+117%

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.

V-Series V140 68.3

Pentium B950 34.3
+99.1%

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.

V-Series V140 1

Pentium B950 2
+172%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.27	0.63
Recency	4 October 2010	19 June 2011
Physical cores	1	2
Threads	1	2
Chip lithography	45 nm	32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	35 Watt

V-Series V140 has 40% lower power consumption.

Pentium B950, on the other hand, has a 133.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 months, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and a 40.6% more advanced lithography process.

The Pentium B950 is our recommended choice as it beats the V-Series V140 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between V-Series V140 and Pentium B950, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.