Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 vs Intel Core i7-4712MQ

Core 2 Duo E6550 vs Core i7-4712MQ comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4712MQ beats the Core 2 Duo E6550 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 2 Duo E6550 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-4712MQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core 2 Duo E6550 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E6550. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E6550 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4712MQ. The Core i7-4712MQ outputs less heat than Core 2 Duo E6550 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Duo E6550 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4712MQ

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 Core 2 Duo E6550 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.