Release period
22-May-2011

Pentium G840 2.8GHz Review

Intel Pentium G840, a dual-core CPU for budget desktop PCs.
Two processor cores on Intel G840 chip run at 2.8 GHz. A core includes 64KB L1 and 256 KB L2 caches. The CPU has 3 MB of level 3 cache, shared between the 2 cores. The microprocessor supports only basic technologies, provided by Sandy Bridge microarchitecture: Intel 64 and VT-x Virtualization. Advanced technologies, such as Turbo Boost and HyperThreading, are not supported on this Pentium. The G840 doesn't include AES and AVX instructions, although it supports earlier SIMD instructions up to SSE4.
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Pentium G840 2.8GHz Performance Specification

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CPU Details

2.8 GHz

2 cores

Sandy Bridge

65W

32nm

LGA 1155/Socket H2

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L3 Cache

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CPU Features

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3Mb

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