Intel Pentium E5200 vs Core2 Duo E8400

older Released July, 2008

Reasons to buy the Intel Pentium E5200

Higher Maximum operating temperature

74.1 °C

older Released January, 2008

Reasons to buy the Core2 Duo E8400

	Significantly higher clock speed 3 GHz		Has virtualization support Yes
	Supports trusted computing Yes		Much better overclocked clock speed (Air) 4.22 GHz

	Performance
	Benchmark performance using all cores
Pentium E5200 4.0 Core2 Duo E8400 4.9 Core i3 3220 8.3
PCMark 8 Home 3.0 Accelerated, PassMark and 1 more

	Single-core Performance
	Individual core benchmark performance
Pentium E5200 3.7 Core2 Duo E8400 4.3 Core i3 3220 6.9
PassMark (Single Core), Geekbench 3 Single Core and 1 more

	Integrated Graphics
	Integrated GPU performance for graphics
Pentium E5200 n.d. Core2 Duo E8400 n.d. Core i3 3220 n.d.
Fire Strike

	Integrated Graphics (OpenCL)
	Integrated GPU performance for parallel computing
Pentium E5200 0.0 Core2 Duo E8400 0.0 Core i3 3220 0.0
CompuBench 1.5 Bitcoin mining and 4 more

	Performance per Watt
	How efficiently does the processor use electricity?
Pentium E5200 3.3 Core2 Duo E8400 3.6 Core i3 3220 5.7
Fire Strike, CompuBench 1.5 Bitcoin mining and 11 more

	Value
	Are you paying a premium for performance?
Pentium E5200 n.d. Core2 Duo E8400 n.d. Core i3 3220 n.d.
Fire Strike, CompuBench 1.5 Bitcoin mining and 11 more

3.3	CPUBoss Score
	Combination of all six facets
Pentium E5200 2.8 Core2 Duo E8400 3.3 Core i3 3220 5.3

Winner
Intel Pentium E5200

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Reasons to consider the
Intel Pentium E5200

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Higher Maximum operating temperature

74.1 °C

72.4 °C

Almost the same

Reasons to consider the
Intel Core2 Duo E8400

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Significantly higher clock speed

3 GHz

2.5 GHz

20% higher clock speed

Has virtualization support

Yes

Somewhat common; Boosts performance of virtual machines

Supports trusted computing

Yes

Somewhat common; Allows for safer, more reliable computing

Much better overclocked clock speed (Air)

4.22 GHz

3.78 GHz

More than 10% better overclocked clock speed (Air)

Better overclocked clock speed (Water)

4.23 GHz

3.9 GHz

Around 10% better overclocked clock speed (Water)

GeekBench 3 (Multi-core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Pentium E5200

2,404

Core2 Duo E8400

2,982

GeekBench 3 (Single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Pentium E5200

1,312

Core2 Duo E8400

1,625

GeekBench 3 (AES single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Pentium E5200

106,400 MB/s

Core2 Duo E8400

128,000 MB/s

GeekBench (32-bit) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Pentium E5200

2,230

Core2 Duo E8400

2,826

GeekBench (64-bit) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Pentium E5200

2,456

Core2 Duo E8400

3,092

GeekBench

Pentium E5200

4,003

Core2 Duo E8400

4,794

PassMark Data courtesy Passmark

Pentium E5200

1,488

Core2 Duo E8400

2,160

PassMark (Single Core)

Pentium E5200

1,015

Core2 Duo E8400

1,251

Pentium E5200		vs	Core2 Duo E8400

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summary	Pentium E5200	Core2 Duo E8400
Clock speed	2.5 GHz	3 GHz
Cores	Dual core	Dual core
Socket type
LGA 775
features
Has a NX bit	Yes	Yes
Supports trusted computing	No	Yes
Has virtualization support	No	Yes
Instruction set extensions
SSE2
MMX
SSE3
SSE
SSE4.1
Supplemental SSE3
Supports dynamic frequency scaling	Yes	Yes
integrated graphics
GPU	None	None
Label	N/A	N/A
Latest DirectX	N/A	N/A
Number of displays supported	N/A	N/A
GPU clock speed	N/A	N/A
Turbo clock speed	N/A	N/A
3DMark06	N/A	N/A

details	Pentium E5200	Core2 Duo E8400
Architecture	x86-64	x86-64
Threads	2	2
L2 cache	2 MB	6 MB
L2 cache per core	1 MB/core	3 MB/core
Manufacture process	45 nm	45 nm
Transistor count	228,000,000	410,000,000
Max CPUs	1	1
Clock multiplier	12	9
Voltage range	0.85 - 1.36V	0.85 - 1.36V
Operating temperature	Unknown - 74.1°C	Unknown - 72.4°C
overclocking
Overclock popularity	36	125
Overclock review score	5	4.5
Overclocked clock speed	3.78 GHz	4.22 GHz
Overclocked clock speed (Water)	3.9 GHz	4.23 GHz
Overclocked clock speed (Air)	3.78 GHz	4.22 GHz
power consumption
TDP	65W	65W
Annual home energy cost	15.66 $/year	15.66 $/year
Annual commercial energy cost	56.94 $/year	56.94 $/year
Performance per watt	1.6 pt/W	1.83 pt/W
Typical power consumption	52.81W	52.81W
bus
Architecture	FSB	FSB
Number of links	1	1
Clock speed	800 MHz	1,333 MHz

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Comments

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Dimitris Agathangelidis (10:48 AM, January 14, 2020)

Kenny, Did you find a solution? I want to upgrade an old pc that has Intel Pentium E5200 installed with the Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, but after reading your comment I don't know if it's a good idea. Did you find what was causing this malfunction? Thanks in advance!

Kenny Chew (12:50 AM, April 9, 2016)

i try to upgrade my cpu from e5200 to duo core e8400 but after start the computer is was stay on startup screen why?

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