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Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

Intel · 2008

Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

Benchmarks

PassMark CPU Mark	1,238
PassMark Single Thread	1,324
Blender Open Data score	8.12 samples/min

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Performance index

1,340

Average of 2 normalized benchmarks. Higher is better. Comparable within Processors only.

Performance ranking

Intel Core 2 Duo E8290 Prelim 1,408
Intel Core i3-2367M CPU 1,406
Intel Core i3-2377M CPU 1,389
Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 Prelim 1,362
Intel Core i7-9xx (Nehalem Class Core i7) 1,345
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 1,340
Intel Core i5-2537M CPU 1,335
Intel Core i7 CPU U 640 1,294
Intel Core i3-2365M CPU 1,271
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 1,206
Intel Core i3 CPU E 330 1,194

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