Three new Intel ‘Sandy Bridge’ Pentium and Celeron processors

Intel has launched three new ‘Sandy Bridge’ LGA 1155 processors. The Pentium G870, Pentium G640 and Celeron G550 are entry-level dual-core processors, based on 32nm transistors. The Celeron G550 is clocked at 2.6 GHz, has an L2-cache memory of 512 kB, and 2 MB of L3-cache.
The Pentium G640 has a 2.8 GHz clock frequency, but retains the 1066 MHz DDR3 controller. The L2-cache on this model is also 512 kB, while the L3-cache has been increased to 3 MB. The Pentium G870 is the fastest of the thre…

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