Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0) vs Intel Core2 Duo E7500. Specifications

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Broadcom BCM2837B0 Intel Core 2 Duo E7000/E8000
• Family
  Broadcom BCM Intel Core2 Duo
• Generation
  3 2
• Predecessor
  - No
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop
• Successor
  - No

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  4x Cortex-A53 -
• Base Frequency
  1.4 GHz 2.93 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo No
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - No turbo

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• Execution units
  2 -
• Generation
  5 -
• GPU Frequency
  400 MHz -
• GPU name
  Broadcom VideoCore 5 -
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo -
• Max. displays
  2 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  1 GB -
• Release date
  02/2016 -
• Shader
  24 -
• Technology
  40 nm -

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No -
• H.264 / AVC
  Conflicting source values: Decode | Decode / Encode -
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No -
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No -
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode -
• VC-1
  Decode -
• VP8
  Decode -
• VP9
  No -

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core2 Duo E7500 and Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0). Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  1024 GB 16 GB
• Memory channels
  1 2
• Memory type
  LPDDR2 DDR2-1066 / DDR3-1333

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0) and Intel Core2 Duo E7500 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 80 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  7 W 65 W
• TDP (PL2)
  - No
• TDP down
  4 W No
• TDP up
  - No

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0) and Intel Core2 Duo E7500, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Cortex-A15 Wolfdale
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  - MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE 4.1
• L2-Cache
  0.5 MB 3 MB
• L3-Cache
  - No
• Release date
  02/2016 Q1/2009
• Socket
  - LGA 775
• Technology
  40 nm 45 nm
• Virtualization
  None VT-x