Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 193.70
$ 53.14 slightly less expensive
$ 246.84

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1002 points
9945 points
892% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1852 points
11850 points
539% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

762 points
9315 points
1122% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

730 points
9122 points
1149% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.16 points
281.95 points
1452% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

776 points
15168 points
1854% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

272 points
2857 points
950% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

763 points
15466 points
1926% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

268 points
2977 points
1010% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.40 GHz
4.50 GHz
87% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
Identical
105 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

976th of 1,124
95th of 1,124

Family

The product line

Core
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2007 February
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs Ryzen 7 7700X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7700X 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 7 7700X has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Quad Q6600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q6600. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. 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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