The Intel Pentium 957 technical specifications and performance benchmarks are detailed on this page. The release date is Q2/2011. Intel Pentium 957 supports the installation of BGA 1023 socket on the motherboard. The number of cores is 2 with the base clock speed of 1.20 GHz. Maximum capacity and type of RAM supported are DDR3-1066DDR3-1333. TDP is 17 W.