Intel Core i5-6300HQ vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400

Price

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$ 1918.00

$ 38.03

$ 1879.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1438 points

17% slightly better overall score

1227 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2667 points

16% slightly better gaming score

2282 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1096 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

933 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1053 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

895 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.90 points

162% significantly higher Blender score

14.84 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2685 points

176% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

970 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

970 points

181% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

344 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2777 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

935 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1025 points

204% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

337 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

2.66 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

111% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

826th of 1,089

894th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2008 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6300HQ vs Core 2 Quad Q9400 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-6300HQ performs better than the Core 2 Quad Q9400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q9400 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core 2 Quad Q9400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6300HQ. A Core i5-6300HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q9400 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. For instance, the Core i5-6300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.