Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs Intel Core m3-6Y30

Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs Core m3-6Y30 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 is faster than the Core m3-6Y30. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core m3-6Y30 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has significantly more cores than the Core m3-6Y30. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core m3-6Y30. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core m3-6Y30. The Core m3-6Y30 outputs less heat than Core 2 Quad Q6600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core m3-6Y30

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.