Intel Core i5-6600 vs Intel Core i5-1334U

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 10 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
4990 points
99% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4645 points
7541 points
62% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1909 points
4272 points
123% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1831 points
4120 points
125% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.76 points
57.29 points
19% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
10
150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
153% significantly higher clock speed
1.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.6 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
20
25% slightly more pcie lanes

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

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
6.5 MiB
550% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
12 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

626th of 1,089
349th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5
13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
DDR5-5200

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 Core i5-1334U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1334U is faster than the Core i5-6600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1334U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-6600 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6600. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1334U. Despite this, the Core i5-1334U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-1334U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-6600. The Core i5-1334U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. 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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