Intel® Core™2 Duo

Maximum everything. Energy-efficient performance. Multimedia power. Based on Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor family is designed to provide powerful energy-efficient performance so you can do more at once without slowing down. Intel® Core™ 2 Duo desktop processors With Intel Core 2 Duo desktop processor, you'll experience revolutionary performance, unbelievable system responsiveness, and energy-efficiency second to none. Big, big performance. More energy efficient.¹ Now available in smaller packages. The Intel Core 2 Duo processor-based desktop PC was designed from the ground up for energy efficiency, letting you enjoy higher performing, ultra-quiet, sleek, and low power desktop PC designs. Multitask with reckless abandon. Do more at the same time, like playing your favorite music, running virus scan in the background, and all while you edit video or pictures. The powerful Intel Core 2 Duo desktop processor provides you with the speed you need to perform any and all tasks imaginable. Love your PC again. Don’t settle for anything less than the very best. Find your perfect desktop powered by the Intel Core 2 Duo processor and get the best processing technology money can buy. Only from Intel. • Up to 6MB L2 cache • Up to 1333 MHz front side bus Product information Download the desktop processor product brief (PDF 767KB) Learn about processor numbersΔ Features and benefits Delivering the best overall performance. Period. With Intel Core 2 Duo processors powering your desktop PC you'll get the latest arsenal of performance-rich technologies, including up to 6MB of shared L2 cache and up to 1333 MHz Front Side Bus. And, all of the latest additions to the Intel Core 2 Duo processor family are built using Intel’s 45nm technology and Hafnium infused circuitry. You've got the future of computing now, and only from Intel: Dual-Core Processing, combines two independent processor cores in one physical package. Processors run at the same frequency and share up to 6MB of L2 cache and up to 1333 MHZ Front Side Bus for truly parallel computing Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution, enabling delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve execution time and energy efficiency Intel® Intelligent Power Capability, designed to deliver more energy-efficient performance and smarter battery performance in your laptop Intel® Smart Memory Access, improving system performance by optimizing the use of the available data bandwidth Intel® Advanced Smart Cache, providing a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for multi-core and dual-core processors Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost, accelerating a broad range of applications, including video, speech and image, photo processing, encryption, financial, engineering and scientific applications		Extreme proof "...the fastest mobile processor we have seen in our testlab" – Tom's Hardware » Discover the biggest change in transistor technology in 40 years Compare products Compare desktop processors Compare motherboards and barebones Compare desktop chipsets

¹ Performance measured Intel® Core™2 Duo desktop processors compared to Intel® Pentium® D processor 805 on SPECint*_base2000 and SPECint*_rate_base2000 (2 copies). Actual performance may vary. See www.intel.com/performance for more information.

Δ Intel® processor numbers are not a measure of performance. Processor numbers differentiate features within each processor family, not across different processor families. See www.intel.com/products/processor_number/ for details.