Intel Core i3-4000M vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 58.11
$ 135.59 significantly less expensive
$ 193.70

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

915 points
1002 points
9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1829 points
1852 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

674 points
762 points
13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

646 points
730 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.93 points
9% slightly higher Blender score
18.16 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1400 points
80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
776 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

698 points
156% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
272 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1447 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
763 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

720 points
168% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
268 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
2.40 GHz
0.12% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

37 W
183% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

977th of 1,089
946th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 November
2007 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i3-4000M vs Core 2 Quad Q6600 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 performs better than the Core i3-4000M. Despite this, the Core i3-4000M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-4000M. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-4000M. 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 i3-4000M. A Core i3-4000M 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-4000M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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