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Intel Core i5 2400 Cpu
Intel Core i5 2400
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Intel Core i5 6600K Cpu
Intel Core i5 6600K
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Intel Core i5 9400F Cpu
Intel Core i5 9400F
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Intel Pentium G4560 Cpu
Intel Pentium G4560
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Intel has finally unveiled their 6th Generation processors codenamed Skylake. We take a look at the new unlocked 6600K and 6700K CPUs to see what improvements have been made.Read more
Though limited to four cores/four threads, the Core i5-6600K is a strong pick for price-conscious performance hounds and future-looking gamers seeking a powerful CPU at a reasonable price.Read more
In the last few years, reviewing an Intel CPU from a gaming perspective has always been something of a challenge. Typic…Read more
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Intel's Core i5-9400 and -9400F CPUs, armed with with six cores and six threads, come to defend the company's gaming dominance in the mid-range market.Read more
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Hyper-Threading in a Pentium? It's blasphemy, and also pretty cool.Read more
Set at 3.5GHz, the Pentium G4560 is poised to be the bargain CPU of 2017. It's only 200MHz slower than the much loved Core i3-6100, amazing news...Read more
Kaby Lake's improved transistors allow Intel to clock its Pentium CPUs a few hundred megahertz higher. More important, though, the company arms them with Hyper-Threading technology. We test the Pentium G4620 and G4560 models to gauge their value.Read more
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General

Processor socketLGA 1155LGA 1151LGA 1151LGA 1151
Operating modes64-bit64-bit64-bit64-bit
Component for
N/A
PCPCPC

Processor

Clock speed3.1 GHz3.5 GHz2.9 GHz3.5 GHz
Max turbo speed3.4 GHz3.9 GHz4.1 GHz
N/A
Number of cores4462
Number of threads4464
Thermal Design Power (TDP)95.0 W91.0 W65.0 W54.0 W
Processor lithography0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in
Bus typeDMIDMIDMI3DMI3
Idle statesyesyesyesyes

Integrated Graphics

On-board graphics adapteryesyesnoyes
TypeIntel HD Graphics 2000Intel HD Graphics 530Not availableIntel HD Graphics 610
On-board graphics adapter base frequency850.0 MHz350.0 MHz
N/A
350.0 MHz
On-board graphics adapter DirectX version
N/A
12.0
N/A
12.0

Memory

Cache6 MB6 MB9 MB3 MB
Cache typeL3L3Smart Cache
N/A
Maximum internal memory supported by processor32.0 GB64.0 GB128.0 GB64.0 GB
Memory bandwidth supported by processor (max)21.0 GB/s34.1 GB/s41.6 GB/s
N/A
Memory clock speeds supported by processor
N/A
  • 1866
  • 1333
  • 2133
  • 1600
2666.0 MHz
  • 1333
  • 1600
  • 2133
  • 2400
Memory types supported by processor
N/A
  • DDR3L SDRAM
  • DDR4 SDRAM
DDR4 SDRAM
  • DDR3L SDRAM
  • DDR4 SDRAM
Memory channels
N/A
DualDualDual

Features

Thermal monitoring technologiesyesyesyesyes
Maximum number of PCI Express lanes16161616
Supported instruction setsAVX
  • SSE4.1
  • SSE4.2
  • AVX 2.0
  • AVX 2.0
  • SSE4.1
  • SSE4.2
  • SSE4.1
  • SSE4.2
Execute disable bityesyesyesyes
Scalability
N/A
1S1S1S

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