Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs Intel Core i7 M 620

Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs Core i7 M 620 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7 M 620 beats the Core 2 Quad Q6600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q6600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7 M 620 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7 M 620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q6600. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7 M 620

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 Quad Q6600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.