Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs Intel Core m3-7Y30

Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs Core m3-7Y30 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 performs better than the Core m3-7Y30. Despite this, the Core m3-7Y30 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core m3-7Y30 has 2 cores. 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 m3-7Y30. The Core m3-7Y30 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. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core m3-7Y30

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.