Core i3-540 vs Core 2 Quad Q6600 benchmarks
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-540 is faster than the Core 2 Quad Q6600. 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 Core 2 Quad Q6600 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-540. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-540. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-540 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q6600. A Core i3-540 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 i3-540 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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