Intel Core 2 Duo E8435

The Intel Core 2 Duo E8435 is a mobile processor from Intel’s Core 2 generation, built around the Penryn codename on Intel’s 45 nm process. The chip contains 410 million transistors on a 107 mm² die, with a TDP of 44. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, a base clock of 3.07 GHz, and no boost clock recorded. The cache layout is 64 KB of L1 per core and 6 MB of shared L2. Memory support is DDR2 and DDR3 over a dual-channel bus, with ECC memory not supported. The processor uses Intel Socket P, is listed for the mobile market segment, and has a production status of end-of-life. Its release date is March 2, 2009. In the fact pack, the benchmark list is empty, the average benchmark score is 0, the percentile against all CPUs is 50, and no nearest rivals are provided.

Benchmark Performance

The numerical performance record for the E8435 is minimal. The benchmarks array contains no entries, so there are no individual workload scores to examine. The aggregate field lists an average benchmark score of 0, and the percentileVsAllCpus field places the processor at the 50th percentile. Because the nearestRivals array is empty, there are no named competitors, no rival scores, and no delta values to calculate. As a result, the type of exact comparative statement that benchmark databases usually produce cannot be made for this product.

The 50th percentile is the one meaningful rank signal in the dataset. It places the E8435 at the midpoint of the aggregate all-CPU distribution captured by the fact pack. That is an ordinal position, not a magnitude. A chip at the 50th percentile can sit close to entries above and below it, or far from them, and without nearest-rival data the distance cannot be measured. The empty nearest-rivals list also means no lead or deficit can be quoted. No statement such as “ahead of a named rival by a specific amount” is supported by the available fields.

The 0 average benchmark score should be read as a missing value rather than as a functional score. Since the benchmarks array is empty, there is no measured workload data from which an average could be derived. The 0 is the placeholder stored in the aggregate field, and the 50th percentile is the only comparative position available.

The absence of a boost clock also matters for benchmark interpretation. The 3.07 GHz base clock is the only frequency figure in the fact pack, so the recorded clock ceiling is the same as the base clock. No higher single-core or multi-core frequency is listed. Without nearest-rival clock values, the data cannot be used to state how the frequency compares to any other product.

Who Should Consider It

The E8435 is defined by its execution resource limits: 2 cores and 2 threads. Software that uses more than two concurrent threads will exceed the thread count listed in the fact pack. For workloads that use no more than two threads, the relevant strengths are the 3.07 GHz base clock and the 6 MB shared L2 cache. The L2 pool is significantly larger than the 64 KB L1 allocation per core, and the shared design means both cores draw from the same 6 MB space.

Office-style work is a plausible fit if the workload consists of lightly threaded interactive tasks. The fact pack does not contain application scores, so this is an inference from the core topology and clock, not a measured result. A 2-thread processor with a 3.07 GHz base clock can service tasks that do not scale beyond two threads. The 44 TDP figure places the part in a mobile thermal class, although the fact pack does not provide cooling or system-level power data.

Creation workloads present a split picture. Single-threaded editing operations may benefit from the high base clock and the shared L2 cache. Multi-thread creation tasks such as encoding or rendering are constrained by the 2-thread limit. Because no boost clock is listed, there is no recorded temporary frequency reserve for short bursts. The processor cannot be described as having extra single-core frequency beyond 3.07 GHz.

The mobile market segment identifies the intended system type, and the end-of-life production status means the fact pack does not describe a current availability path. The data includes no gaming benchmark scores, so no gaming recommendation can be grounded in measured results. A user with strictly two-thread software and a focus on base-clock performance may find the E8435 workable; a user whose software needs more than two threads will run into the hard thread cap.

Single-Thread vs Multi-Thread Behavior

The core count and thread count are both 2, meaning the processor provides exactly two threads for two cores. There is no additional thread-per-core feature recorded in the fact pack. Multi-thread capability is therefore bounded by the two physical cores.

For single-thread behavior, the 3.07 GHz base clock is the only frequency number available. With no boost clock in the data, the processor cannot be credited with a higher single-core frequency. The L1 cache is 64 KB per core, so each core has its own dedicated L1 block. The L2 cache is 6 MB shared, so a single active thread can draw on the shared pool. The cache policy is not documented in the fact pack, so the data does not specify how the shared 6 MB is partitioned.

For multi-thread behavior, both cores access the same 6 MB L2 and the same dual-channel DDR2/DDR3 memory interface. The memory bus is dual-channel, and ECC support is false, meaning the platform path is non-ECC. No L3 cache is listed, so the cache hierarchy in the record ends at the 6 MB shared L2.

The architecture is Core 2, with the Penryn codename and a 45 nm process node. Those physical descriptors do not quantify instructions per clock or per-thread efficiency. The fact pack provides no measured single-thread or multi-thread workload scores. The behavioral split can only be characterized from the structural data: a 3.07 GHz base clock, a 64 KB per-core L1, a 6 MB shared L2, and a 2-thread execution limit.

How It Compares

The nearestRivals field is empty in the fact pack. There is no rival list, no rival name, no rival score, and no delta figure. Without those entries, the E8435 cannot be compared head-to-head with any specific product. No competitor paragraph can be constructed from the fact pack because no competitor data is present.

The only cross-CPU comparison point is the percentileVsAllCpus value of 50. This places the E8435 at the median of the database’s all-CPU distribution. The 50th percentile is a positional statement, not a distance measurement. It does not say how far the processor is from entries above or below it, because no neighboring entries are listed.

The empty nearest-rivals array is itself the key finding. Any claim that the E8435 is a certain amount faster or slower than another product would require data not contained in the fact pack. The available dataset provides a percentile rank but no adjacent products against which to measure margin.

Platform and Compatibility

The E8435 is built for Intel Socket P. That socket is the only platform interface listed in the fact pack. Memory support covers DDR2 and DDR3, and the memory bus is dual-channel. ECC memory is not supported. No memory bandwidth figure is provided, so the throughput of the dual-channel memory path is not quantified in the data.

Integrated graphics are not described as part of the processor itself. The fact pack states that integrated graphics appear on certain motherboards as a chipset feature. This means the processor’s display output depends on the motherboard chipset in the data, not on an on-die graphics block.

The PCIe field is null, so no PCIe version, lane count, or bandwidth information is available. No L3 cache is listed, and no memory bandwidth number is recorded. The market segment is Mobile, the production status is End-of-life, and the release date is March 2, 2009. The multiplier is not unlocked, so no multiplier-based frequency adjustment is represented in the data. The part number QBDWQBEEQHBQQHHLSLAQDSLGEA is recorded, and Intel is listed as the foundry.

The physical platform profile includes the 45 nm process, 410 million transistors, and a 107 mm² die size. For upgrade path, the fact pack does not list compatible processors. The known constraints are the Intel Socket P socket class and the DDR2/DDR3 dual-channel memory support. Because the production status is end-of-life, the data does not indicate a newer drop-in choice on the same socket. The null PCIe field also limits any statement about expansion capability.