Intel Core i7-4600U vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

Core i7-4600U vs Core 2 Quad Q6600 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4600U is faster than the Core 2 Quad Q6600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q6600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-4600U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4600U. A Core i7-4600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-4600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.