Designed from the ground up for extreme competitive gaming and HD multimedia on the fly, the Intel® Core™2 Extreme processors are the world's highest performing quad-core¹ and dual-core² mobile processors. Delivering all the performance of a desktop, enabled in a revolutionary, sleek, and killer notebook.
As your ultimate engine for hi-def digital content creation, HD multimedia, and a rockin' hardcore gaming experience, these notebooks provide the raw power, responsiveness, and realism you need for the most compute-intensive and multi-threaded apps-wherever you want to be.
View performance benchmarks for Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core mobile processor (QX9300)Product brief: Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core mobile processor QX9300File Type/Size: PDF 4.53MB
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Features and benefits
Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core mobile processor (QX9300)
Achieving clock speeds of up to 2.53GHz, along with an astounding 12 MB of shared L2 cache and a 1066 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB), the Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core mobile processor is your ultimate engine for hi-def multimedia while powering the latest generation of hardcore games.
The Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core mobile processor has four cores processing multiple threads and multiple tasks at blistering speeds for an incredible "like you're there" experience in advanced artificial intelligence (AI), particle systems, dynamic physics, and texture generation. As your ultimate engine for creating rich, HD videos with up to 50 percent faster performance when encoding³ and editingΩ video, these processors enable you to perform like a multiple armed monster.
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Extreme press
"Phenom is, clock for clock, slower than Core 2"—Anandtech 11/19/07
Discover the biggest change in transistor technology in 40 yearsGame downloads
Download the latest and hottest games like Crysis* optimized for Intel® processor technology.
Search downloadsAnd because you're looking for ultimate control in game, the Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core mobile processor bus ratio locks (overspeed protection) have been removed, so you can fine tune your notebook experience for maximum gaming performance.°
Intel® Core™2 Extreme dual-core mobile processor (X9100)
Designed for gamers and power-users, the Intel Core 2 Extreme dual-core mobile processor the is world's highest performing dual-core processor². For those who want an intense, high-performance mobile computing experience, the Intel Core 2 Extreme dual-core mobile processor delivers revolutionary mobile dual-core performance with 3.06GHz frequency, 6MB of shared L2 Advanced Smart Cache, and Intel® Smart Memory Access with a blazing 1066MHz Front Side Bus (FSB).
Experience excellent mobile gaming and multimedia with the raw power, responsiveness and realism of revolutionary mobile dual-core performance. The Intel Core 2 Extreme dual-core mobile processor brings a whole new intensity to mobile gaming.
And just like its quad-core big brother, the Intel Core 2 Extreme dual-core mobile processor also offers the ultimate control to with bus ratio locks (overspeed protection) removed, so you can fine tune your notebook experience for maximum gaming performance.°
Extreme notebook performance
Notebooks built with the Intel® Core®2 Extreme mobile processors are designed with mobile-optimized technologies built in.-->
Component
Benefit
45nm Intel® quad-core processor(QX9300)45nm Intel® dual-core processor (X9100)
Enabled by new
hafnium-based circuitry, the processors provide dynamically increased energy efficiency and greater performance in gaming, multimedia, and multitasking on the go.
Power-Optimized 1066 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB)
Increased process system bus speed provides increased data bus bandwidth vs. prior generations for incredible gaming performance.
Larger Intel® Advanced Smart Cache
For the QX9300, 12MB of shared L2 cache minimizes bus traffic by allowing all four cores access to the L2 memory and shared data to be accessed from the cache.For the X9100, 6MB of shared L2 cache minimizes bus traffic by allowing the two cores access to the L2 memory and shared data to be accessed from the cache
Dual Intel® Dynamic Acceleration (QX9300 only)
Uses headroom of idle cores by dynamically boosting frequency of active cores while maintaining the thermal envelope.
Support for Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility (Intel® XTU) and Intel® Extreme Memory Profiles (Intel® XMP)°
Intel® XTU and
Intel® XMP simplify processor and memory overclocking to optimize performance for extreme gaming.
¹ For more information on why Intel® Core®2 Extreme Processor QX9300 is the world's highest performing quad-core mobile processor see
www.intel.com/performance/mobile/extreme/index.htm for important additional information.
² Performance estimated for the Intel® Core™2 Extreme Mobile processor X9100 on SPECint*_rate_base2006. Actual performance on final product may vary. See
www.intel.com/performance/ for more information. SPEC, SPECint, SPECrate, are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. See:
www.spec.org for more information on the benchmarks.
³ Performance measured based on TMPGEncoder* Xpress* 4.4 comparing notebooks with quad-core Intel® Core 2 Extreme processor QX9300 with notebooks based on dual-core Intel® Core 2 Extreme Processor X9100. Actual performance may vary. See
www.intel.com/performance/mobile/extreme/index.htm for important additional information.
Ω Performance measured based on Adobe* Premiere Pro* CS3 comparing notebooks with quad-core Intel® Core 2 Extreme processor QX9300 with notebooks based on dual-core Intel® Core 2 Extreme Processor X9100. Actual performance may vary. See
www.intel.com/performance/mobile/extreme/index.htm for important additional information.
° Warning: Altering clock frequency and/or voltage may: (i) reduce system stability and useful life of the system, processor and other system components; (ii) cause the processor and other system components to fail; (iii) cause reductions in system performance; (iv) cause additional heat or other damage; and (v) affect system data integrity. Intel has not tested, and does not warranty, the operation of the processor beyond its specifications. Intel has not tested, and does not warranty, the operation of other system components beyond their industry standard specifications. Intel assumes no responsibility that the processor and other system components, including if used with altered clock frequencies and/or voltages, will be fit for any particular purpose.
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