AMD A6-5357M vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

A6-5357M vs Core 2 Quad Q6600 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 is faster than the A6-5357M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-5357M in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A6-5357M has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A6-5357M. With our hardware info, we find that the A6-5357M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q6600. A A6-5357M CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has more L2 cache than the A6-5357M

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the A6-5357M has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.