Intel Core i7-7600U vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9505

Core i7-7600U vs Core 2 Quad Q9505 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7600U beats the Core 2 Quad Q9505 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q9505 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7600U. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-7600U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-7600U. A Core i7-7600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q9505 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. Indeed, the Core i7-7600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.