Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7430U

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1002 points
4404 points
339% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1852 points
6525 points
252% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

762 points
3759 points
393% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

730 points
3630 points
397% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.16 points
86.99 points
379% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.40 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed
2.30 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
15 W
599% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
166% significantly more L2 cache
3 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

946th of 1,089
400th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2007 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs Ryzen 5 7430U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7430U 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 7430U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Quad Q6600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7430U. The Ryzen 5 7430U 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 Ryzen 5 7430U

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.

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