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Intel Core i7-920 vs Intel Pentium E6500

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i7-920
Rank 2 - 80 %
Intel Pentium E6500
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i7-920
Rank 2 - 38 %
Intel Pentium E6500
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

Intel Core i7-920
4C / 8T · 2.93 GHz
513
Intel Pentium E6500
2C / 2T · 2.93 GHz
408
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Core i7-920
4C / 8T · 2.66 GHz
2,085
Intel Pentium E6500
2C / 2T · 2.93 GHz
736
CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Core i7-920
4C / 8T · 2.66 GHz
1,263
Intel Pentium E6500
2C / 2T · 2.93 GHz
468

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At a glance

Wischen
Intel Core i7-920Intel Pentium E6500
FamilyIntel Core i7 (300)Intel Pentium (150)
CPU groupIntel Core i7 900 (7)Intel Pentium E5000/E6000 (13)
ArchitectureBloomfieldWolfdale (Penryn)
Technology45 nm45 nm
SegmentDesktopDesktop
SocketLGA 1366LGA 775
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Intel Core i7-920Intel Pentium E6500
CPU Cores / Threads4 / 82 / 2
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 4x 2x Penryn
Frequency: 2.66 GHz 2.93 GHz
Turbo (1 Core): 2.93 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):
L2-Cache1.00 MB2.00 MB
L3-Cache8.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Intel Core i7-920Intel Pentium E6500
GPU nameno iGPUno iGPU
GPU frequency
CUs / Shader / /
Raytracing
Max. displays
Max. GPU Memory
Technology
Release date

NPU AI performance

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Intel Core i7-920Intel Pentium E6500
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Intel Core i7-920Intel Pentium E6500
MemoryDDR3-1066 (25.6 GB/s)
DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
DDR2-800 (12.8 GB/s)
Max. Memory24 GB16 GB
Memory channels32
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

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Intel Core i7-920Intel Pentium E6500
TDP130 W65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Intel Core i7-920Intel Pentium E6500
Chip designMonolithicMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsWindows 10, LinuxWindows 10, Linux
Instruction setx86-64 (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3
Release dateQ4/2008Q3/2009
Release price305 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheetTechnical data sheet

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Intel Core i7-920
Intel Core i7-920
4C / 8T · 2.66 - 2.93 GHz
Intel Pentium E6500
Intel Pentium E6500
2C / 2T · 2.93 GHz

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