Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs Ryzen 5 5500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5500 has significantly more cores than the Core 2 Quad Q6600. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core 2 Quad Q6600. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Quad Q6600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q6600. The Ryzen 5 5500 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 info from our database shows that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500

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.