Intel Core 2 Duo Processors

Maximum everything. Energy-efficient performance. Multimedia power. Based on revolutionary Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, the breakthrough Intel® Core™2 Duo processor family is designed to provide powerful energy-efficient performance so you can do more at once without slowing down. World's Best Desktop Processor. With Intel® Core™2 Duo desktop processor, you'll experience revolutionary performance, unbelievable system responsiveness, and energy-efficiency second to none. And, you won't have to slow down for virus scan, multiple compute intensive programs, or multimedia downloads - these desktop processors are up to 40 percent faster and over 40 percent more energy-efficient.¹ World's Best Mobile Processor - now available. Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile technology has just gotten a mobility upgrade with the new Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processor. Its advanced capabilities provide twice the multitasking performance² while using 28 percent less power³ so you get the benefit of a powerful dual-core PC plus all the benefits of mobility

Product information

Download the desktop product brief (PDF 192KB) Download the mobile product brief (PDF 326KB) Why are Intel Core 2 Duo processors the best in the world? Check out the desktop benchmarks For the digital home › For the digital office › Check out the mobile benchmark Unrivaled performance, built for power savings › See product image Learn about processor numbersΔ

Features and benefits

Delivering the best overall performance. Period. With Intel Core 2 Duo processors powering your desktop and laptop PCs you'll get the latest arsenal of performance-rich technologies, including up to 4MB of shared L2 cache, up to 1066 MHz Front Side Bus for desktop, and up to 667 MHz Front Side Bus for laptop, you've got the future of computing now, and only from Intel: 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

Additional desktop performance

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 PCs 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.