Intel® Core™2 Extreme Mobile Processor

Gaming elite—meet your processor

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-core‡ and dual-core‡ 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.

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Break Through Boundaries

Start rockin’ the game, whenever, wherever. The Intel® Core™2 Extreme mobile processor is the ultimate tool in your arsenal for unprecedented gaming and multimedia on the go.‡ And for those gaming elitist’s and control freaks out there, the Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme dual core and quad core mobile processors have support for advanced features that allow you to tune your system for even more tail-kickin’ performance.‡

World's Highest Performing Mobile ProcessorΔ

The benchmark results shown represent processor performance of the new
Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core mobile processor QX9300 compared to
the Intel Core 2 Extreme dual-core mobile processor X9100.



Overview

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-core ‡1 and dual-core ‡2 mobile processors. Delivering all the performance of a desktop, enabled in a revolutionary, sleek, and killer notebook.

Immersive Gaming

Immersive games are the forward-looking games of the future with advanced artificial intelligence, highly developed particle systems, and complex physics that make the CPU a critical component of gaming performance. With four cores, you can process all of these characteristics at once, completely absorbing you into the game.

Threaded Gaming

Gamers can take advantage of quad-core today as some games have been designed with increased threading capability. Intel® Core™2 Extreme dual-core mobile processors are an excellent choice for today’s games and Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core mobile processors will empower you for the immersive games of tomorrow.

Legacy Gaming

The new Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core mobile processor and the Intel® Core™2 Extreme dual-core mobile processor give you excellent performance on previous generation games.

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Intel® Core™2 Extreme Dual-Core Mobile Processor, X9100

Get extreme performance for incredible gaming on the go

Based on the new 45nm Intel Core Micro-architecture, the Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme includes new and innovative features that drive these new levels of mobile performance: watch execution times fly, Intel wide dynamic execution enables delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve execution time and increase energy efficiency.

6 MB of L2 cache, 1066 MHz Front Side Bus and clock speeds of up to 3.06 GHz.
Master the world of extreme gaming anywhere and everywhere you go with the Intel® Core™2 Extreme mobile processor. The world's highest performing dual core mobile processor‡ delivers unrivaled performance.

Accelerate ultra-realistic game play and artificial intelligence.
Intel® HD Boost with 47 new instructions accelerates applications such as video, speech and image, photo processing, encryption, financial, engineering and scientific applications. 128-bit instructions can be completely executed at a throughput rate of one per clock cycle, effectively doubling, on a per clock basis, the speed of execution for these instructions as compared to previous generations

Overspeed protection removed and support for Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility (Intel® XTU) and Intel® Extreme Memory Profiles (Intel® XMP)‡
Intel XTU and Intel XMP simplify processor and memory tuning to optimize performance for extreme gaming.

Intel® Core™2 Extreme Quad-Core Mobile Processor,
QX9300

The world’s first quad-core mobile processor

Intel® quad-core processor based on 45nm micro architecture with Intel® HD Boost
Four cores provide mega performance for highly threaded games and applications with over 50% better performance on 3DMark* Vantage* CPU test.‡

Power-Optimized 1066 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB)
Improved FSB provides increased data bus bandwidth vs. prior generations for incredible gaming performance.

Larger Intel® Advanced Smart Cache
Larger, smarter, and more efficient cache design can handle complex physics and AI for “like you’re there” realism in games.

Dual Intel® Dynamic Acceleration
This feature enables power reductions while increasing frequency by 266MHz.

Overspeed protection removed and support for Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility (Intel® XTU) and Intel® Extreme Memory Profiles (Intel® XMP)‡
Intel XTU and Intel XMP simplify processor and memory tuning to optimize performance for extreme gaming.


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‡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/ 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 estimated for the Intel® Core™2 Extreme mobile processor X9000 on SPEC* CPU2006. Actual performance on final product may vary. See www.intel.com/performance/ for more information.

‡4 WARNING: Altering clock frequency and/or voltage may: (i) reduce system stability and useful life of the system and processor; (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 assumes no responsibility that the processor, including if used with altered clock frequencies and/or voltages, will be fit for any particular purpose.

‡5 3DMark* Vantage is a 3D graphics benchmark, designed for Microsoft Windows Vista* and DirectX*10. It includes two graphics tests, two CPU tests, and several feature tests. The CPU tests measures the contribution of the processor on 3D graphical performance while the graphics test measures game simulation performance.

Δ For world's highest performing mobile processor claim substantiation please visit: www.intel.com/Consumer/Learn/Notebook/core2xe-detail.htm.

Σ1 Lost Planet* is a third-person shooter video game, created by Capcom that takes place in the past and future of the planet E. D. N. III. For more information visit www.lostplanet-thegame.com.

Σ2 Enemy Territory Quake Wars* is a multiplayer, team-based first-person shooter set in the futuristic Quake universe. Using a variety of weapons and vehicles, one team (either the invading alien Strogg or the human Global Defense Force) attempts to complete a series of objectives while the other defends. For more information visit www.enemyterritory.com.

Σ3 Company of Heroes* is a real-time strategy game set in World War II. For more information visit www.companyofheroesgame.com.

‡6 Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel® products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit Intel Performance Benchmark Limitations.

‡7 Relative performance for each benchmark is calculated by taking the actual benchmark result for the first platform tested and assigning it a value of 1.0 as a baseline. Relative performance for the remaining platforms tested was calculated by dividing the actual benchmark result for the baseline platform into each of the specific benchmark results of each of the other platforms and assigning them a relative performance number that correlates with the performance improvements reported.