December 30, 2011

Intel Core i7-2640M

The Intel Core i7-2640M is a fast dual core processor and made available in the Q3 2011. This processor is the successor of the slower clocked Core i7-2620M. The Intel Core i7-2640M is based on the Sandy Bridge architecture and features Hyperthreading technology that can handle 4 threads at once for additional performance by up 20%. The Intel Core i7-2640M offers a larger L3 cache of 4MB. This processor has a base clock speed of 2.8 GHz but because of the TurboBoost Technology it can increase up to 3.3 GHz when 2 cores are active and 3.5 GHz when only 1 core is active.

This Intel Core i7-2640M also has an improved Turbo 2.0 and an integrated graphics card into the 32nm CPU core. The integrated GPU dubbed Intel HD Graphics 3000 which is fabricated in 32nm technology and shares the fast level 3 cache with the CPU cores. This new integrated GPU is said to be as powerful as the entry level discreet card and therefore can render high definition movies and low resolution games with ease. In the Core i7-2640M the GPU is clocked from 650 to 1300MHz, because of TurboBoost. Additionally, an enhanced dual-channel DDR3 RAM controller is contained within the CPU die which is also used by the CPU and GPU part. It has PassMark rating of 4209.

The chart below shows the processors' performance in terms of PassMark rating. The higher the rating, the better the performance of the processor.

Processors Passmark Rating
Intel Atom N435 246
Intel Atom N280 315
AMD E-240 317
Intel Atom N450 318
Intel Atom N455 321
AMD C-50 453
Intel Atom N550 567
AMD C-60 592
AMD E-300 595
Intel Atom N570 646
AMD E-350 APU 725
AMD E-450 768
Intel Core i3 380UM 1305
AMD Athlon II P360 1348
AMD A4-3310MX 1417
Celeron B800 1454
AMD Turion II P540 1497
Pentium T4500 1546
Pentium P6200 1624
Intel Core i3-2367M 1842
AMD E2-3000M 1857
Intel Pentium B950 1976
Intel Core i5-2467M 2172
AMD A4-3300M 2196
intel Core i3-370M 2220
Intel Core i3 380M 2313
Intel Core i5-2557M 2590
Intel Core i5 460M 2612
Intel Core i3 2310M 2619
Intel Core i5 560M 2671
Intel Core i7 620M 2794
Intel Core i3 2330M 2803
Intel Core i3-2350M 3084
AMD A6-3410MX APU 3157
AMD A8-3500M 3166
Intel Core i7-2677M 3176
Intel Core i7 720QM 3294
Intel Core i5 2410M 3350
AMD A8-3510MX 3359
AMD A8-3530MX 3431
Intel Core i5 2430M 3484
AMD A6-3400M 3539
Intel Core i7 2620M 3907
Intel Core i7 2640M 4209
Intel Core i7 2675QM 6144
Intel Core i7 2630QM 6334
Intel Core i7 2635QM 6574
Intel Core i7 2670QM 6804
Intel Core i7 2720QM 7040
Intel Core i7 2820QM 7495
Intel Core i7 2760QM 7586
Intel Core i7 2920XM 7680
Intel Core i7 2860QM 8012
Intel Core i7 2960XM 8861

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