Intel Core i5-5200U vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

Core i5-5200U vs Core 2 Quad Q6600 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-5200U 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.

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 i5-5200U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-5200U. A Core i5-5200U 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 i5-5200U

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 i5-5200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.