Intel Core i5-2450M vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

Core i5-2450M vs Core 2 Quad Q6600 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2450M 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-2450M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-2450M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q6600. A Core i5-2450M 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 i5-2450M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.