Intel Core i5-9600KF vs Intel Core 2 Duo E6550

Core i5-9600KF vs Core 2 Duo E6550 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-9600KF beats the Core 2 Duo E6550 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Duo E6550 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-9600KF has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core 2 Duo E6550 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E6550. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-9600KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Duo E6550. The Core 2 Duo E6550 outputs less heat than Core i5-9600KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E6550 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-9600KF

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 i5-9600KF has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.