Intel Core i7-6600U vs Intel Core i5-4460S

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 2 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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$ 2749.00
$ 159.95
$ 2589.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1166 points
1911 points
63% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2340 points
3523 points
50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

858 points
1459 points
70% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

820 points
1403 points
71% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.09 points
33.53 points
45% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
2.9 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
Identical
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
333% significantly lower TDP
65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

12
16
33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
Identical
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

908th of 1,089
736th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7
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

DDR4-2133
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-6600U vs Core i5-4460S comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4460S is faster than the Core i7-6600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6600U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-4460S has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6600U. Indeed, the Core i5-4460S has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-6600U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4460S has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6600U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i7-6600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-4460S 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 i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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