Intel Pentium B980 Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2024-04-16

The Intel Pentium B980 has 2 cores with 2 threads and is based on the 3. gen of the Intel Pentium series. The processor uses a mainboard with the PGA 988 socket and was released in Q2/2012. The Intel Pentium B980 scores 447 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 889 points.

CPU lineage
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Name:	Intel Pentium B980
Family:	Intel Pentium (150)
CPU group:	Intel Pentium 900 (10)
Architecture:	Sandy Bridge U
Segment:	Mobile
Generation:	3
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Pentium B980 has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 2 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Pentium B980 is 2.40 GHz. The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads:	2 / 2
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	2x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	No
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	2.40 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	--
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores):	--

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The Intel Pentium B980 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Pentium B980 uses the Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1), which has 48 texture shaders and 6 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name:	Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)
GPU frequency:	0.65 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	1.15 GHz
Compute units:	6
Shader:	48
Hardware Raytracing:	No
Release date:	Q2/2011

Max. displays:	2
Generation:	6
Direct X:	10.1
Technology:	32 nm
Max. GPU Memory:	2 GB
Frame Generation:	No

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit):	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):	No
h264:	Decode / Encode
VP8:	No
VP9:	No

AV1:	No
AVC:	Decode / Encode
VC-1:	Decode
JPEG:	No

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The processor can use up to 16 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 21.3 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

DDR3-1066 DDR3-1333	17.1 GB/s 21.3 GB/s
Max. Memory:	16 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	No
PCIe:	2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth:	8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 35 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	35 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	--
Tjunction max.:	85 °C

Technical details

The Intel Pentium B980 is made in 32 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 2.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology:	32 nm
Chip design:	Monolithic
Socket:	PGA 988
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	2.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:	Windows 10, Linux

Virtualization:	VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release date:	Q2/2012
Release price:	--
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Pentium B980
2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Pentium B980 have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD A4-6300 2C 2T @ 3.90 GHz	449
	Intel Core i3-4030U 2C 4T @ 1.90 GHz	449
	Intel Celeron N4120 4C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	448
	Intel Pentium B980 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	447
	Intel Celeron 2950M 2C 2T @ 2.00 GHz	446
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 4G 8C 8T @ 2.80 GHz	445
	Intel Pentium D1517 4C 8T @ 2.20 GHz	444

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Pentium Gold 4415Y 2C 4T @ 1.70 GHz	893
	Intel Celeron J4005 2C 2T @ 2.70 GHz	892
	MediaTek Helio G35 8C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	892
	Intel Pentium B980 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	889
	Intel Core i5-4300Y 2C 4T @ 1.60 GHz	886
	Intel Pentium 2020M 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	886
	Intel Core2 Duo E8600 2C 2T @ 3.33 GHz	885

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	Intel Pentium 2030M 2C 2T @ 2.50 GHz	421
	Samsung Exynos 8895 8C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	421
	UNISOC T610 8C 8T @ 1.80 GHz	421
	Intel Pentium B980 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	419
	Intel Core i3-2120T 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	418
	UNISOC T700 8C 8T @ 1.80 GHz	417
	Samsung Exynos 9810 8C 8T @ 2.90 GHz	417

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	Intel Celeron J4025 2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz	724
	Intel Celeron N4020 2C 2T @ 2.70 GHz	722
	Intel Core i5-2537M 2C 4T @ 1.40 GHz	717
	Intel Pentium B980 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	715
	Intel Celeron G1610T 2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz	712
	Intel Atom C3508 4C 4T @ 1.60 GHz	711
	Intel Pentium B970 2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz	711

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	Intel Core i5-3570 Intel HD Graphics 2500 @ 1.15 GHz	110
	Intel Core i5-3570S Intel HD Graphics 2500 @ 1.15 GHz	110
	Intel Pentium B970 Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1) @ 1.15 GHz	110
	Intel Pentium B980 Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1) @ 1.15 GHz	110
	MediaTek Helio X23 ARM Mali-T880 MP4 @ 0.78 GHz	106
	MediaTek Helio X20 ARM Mali-T880 MP4 @ 0.78 GHz	106
	Intel Atom x6214RE Intel UHD Graphics 10th Gen (16 EU) @ 0.40 GHz	106

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	Intel Pentium E6600 2C 2T @ 3.06 GHz	1120
	Intel Celeron N3350 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	1110
	Intel Atom x6214RE 2C 2T @ 1.40 GHz	1108
	Intel Pentium B980 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	1105
	AMD Athlon II X2 210e 2C 2T @ 2.60 GHz	1105
	Intel Celeron G530 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	1102
	Intel Celeron 1005M 2C 2T @ 1.90 GHz	1099

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Intel Pentium E5500 2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz	452
	AMD A6-6310 4C 4T @ 2.00 GHz	448
	Intel Celeron G530 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	444
	Intel Pentium B980 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	442
	Intel Core i3-3217U 2C 4T @ 1.80 GHz	439
	Intel Pentium E5400 2C 2T @ 2.70 GHz	436
	Intel Core2 Duo E8200 2C 2T @ 2.66 GHz	435

Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,488 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,461 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,755 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,703 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,042 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,392 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
733 entries

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