Intel Core i5-4300U vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

972 points
1002 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1897 points
2% slightly better gaming score
1852 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

726 points
762 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

696 points
730 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.06 points
10% slightly higher Blender score
18.16 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1465 points
88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
776 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

782 points
187% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
272 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1469 points
92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
763 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

789 points
194% 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

2.50 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed
2.40 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
599% significantly lower TDP
105 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.25 MiB
8 MiB
3100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

959th of 1,089
946th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
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 i5-4300U vs Core 2 Quad Q6600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4300U 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-4300U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4300U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q6600. A Core i5-4300U 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 info from our database shows that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-4300U

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 i5-4300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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