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Intel Pentium E2160 vs Intel Core i7-960

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 2 - 44 %
Intel Pentium E2160
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i7-960
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 19 %
Intel Pentium E2160
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i7-960
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Intel Pentium E2160
2C / 2T · 1.80 GHz
254
Intel Core i7-960
4C / 8T · 3.46 GHz
576
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Intel Pentium E2160
2C / 2T · 1.80 GHz
458
Intel Core i7-960
4C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
2,370

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At a glance

Wischen
Intel Pentium E2160Intel Core i7-960
FamilyIntel Pentium (150)Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU groupIntel Pentium D (6)Intel Core i7 900 (7)
ArchitecturePreslerBloomfield
Technology65 nm45 nm
SegmentDesktopDesktop
SocketLGA 775LGA 1366
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Intel Pentium E2160Intel Core i7-960
CPU Cores / Threads2 / 24 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 2x Core 4x
Frequency: 1.80 GHz 3.20 GHz
Turbo (1 Core): 3.46 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):
L2-Cache1.00 MB1.00 MB
L3-Cache8.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Intel Pentium E2160Intel Core i7-960
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 Pentium E2160Intel Core i7-960
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Intel Pentium E2160Intel Core i7-960
MemoryDDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s)
DDR2-800 (12.8 GB/s)
DDR3-1066 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory16 GB24 GB
Memory channels23
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

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Intel Pentium E2160Intel Core i7-960
TDP65 W130 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Intel Pentium E2160Intel Core i7-960
Chip designMonolithicMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsWindows 10, LinuxWindows 10, Linux
Instruction setx86-64 (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release dateQ2/2007Q4/2009
Release price305 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheetTechnical data sheet

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Intel Pentium E2160
Intel Pentium E2160
2C / 2T · 1.80 GHz
Intel Core i7-960
Intel Core i7-960
4C / 8T · 3.20 - 3.46 GHz

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