Intel Core i5-6500 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200

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Price

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$ 103.63
$ 48.21
$ 55.42 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2289 points
191% significantly better overall score
784 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4255 points
196% significantly better gaming score
1436 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1743 points
189% significantly better multitasking score
602 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1675 points
188% significantly better heavy workload score
580 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.07 points
491% significantly higher Blender score
7.45 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3159 points
210% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1016 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1147 points
260% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
318 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3287 points
298% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
825 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1202 points
311% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
292 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
37% slightly higher clock speed
2.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

670th of 1,102
1,021st of 1,102

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

DDR4-1866
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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