Pentium D/Extreme Edition
The twin-core CPU is capable of running multi-threaded applications typical in transcoding of audio and video, compressing, photo and video editing and rendering, and ray-tracing. Single-threaded applications alone, including most older games, do not benefit from the second core of dual-core CPU compared to equally clocked single-core CPU. Nevertheless, the dual-core CPU is useful to run both the client and server processes of a game without noticeable lag in either thread, as each instance could be running on a different core. Furthermore, multi-threaded games benefit from the Twin-core CPUs.
As of 2008 many business applications are not optimized for multiple cores. They run at similar speed when not multitasking on the Pentium D or older Pentium 4 branded CPUs at the same clock speed. However, in multitasking environments such as BSD, Linux, Microsoft Windows operating systems, other processes are often running at the same time; if they require significant CPU time, each core of the Pentium D branded processor can handle different programs, improving overall processing speed over its single-core Pentium 4 counterpart.
| Intel Pentium D processor family | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Original logo | New logo | Desktop | ||
| Code-named | Manufacturing process | Date released | ||
| Smithfield Presler |
90 nm 65 nm |
May 2005 Jan 2006 |
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| Smithfield XE Presler XE |
90 nm 65 nm |
May 2005 Jan 2006 |
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