Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 vs Intel Pentium E5800

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

862 points

895 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1899 points

1948 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

611 points

639 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

587 points

613 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

8.12 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

6.33 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

638 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

561 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

392 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

353 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.17 GHz

3.20 GHz

1% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

987th of 1,089

985th of 1,089

Family

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Core

Pentium

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 February

2010 November

Core 2 Duo E8500 vs Pentium E5800 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium E5800 performs better than the Core 2 Duo E8500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Duo E8500 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium E5800 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Duo E8500. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has significantly more L2 cache than the Pentium E5800

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.