Intel Core i5-6600T vs Intel Core i5-4460

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

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Price

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$ 421.00
$ 64.04
$ 356.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2037 points
2038 points
0.05% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3823 points
1% slightly better gaming score
3756 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1547 points
1556 points
0.58% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1485 points
1494 points
0.61% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.95 points
14% slightly higher Blender score
41.05 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3085 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2935 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1154 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1032 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3083 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2954 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1165 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1068 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

2.7 GHz
3.20 GHz
18% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
139% significantly lower TDP
84 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

710th of 1,089
709th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5
4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-6600T vs Core i5-4460 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6600T is faster than the Core i5-4460. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4460 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4460 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6600T. Despite this, the Core i5-6600T has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6600T CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-4460 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 i5-6600T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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