Intel Core i3-2370M vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

Core i3-2370M vs Core 2 Quad Q6600 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 beats the Core i3-2370M in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-2370M 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 i3-2370M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-2370M. A Core i3-2370M CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Core i3-2370M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.