Intel Core i5-6600 vs Intel Celeron 6305

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Celeron 6000 Series 2 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

2507 points
258% significantly better overall score
699 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4645 points
203% significantly better gaming score
1529 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1909 points
282% significantly better multitasking score
499 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1831 points
283% significantly better heavy workload score
478 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.76 points
353% significantly higher Blender score
10.52 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3562 points
191% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1220 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points
77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
730 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
Identical
64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

626th of 1,089
1,029th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5
Celeron 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2020 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-6600 vs Celeron 6305 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6600 is faster than the Celeron 6305. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron 6305 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-6600 has significantly more cores than the Celeron 6305. Indeed, the Core i5-6600 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Celeron 6305. It also has more threads than the Celeron 6305.

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 i5-6600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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