Intel Core i7-8086K vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

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Price

The average price from our partner retailers

$ 345.00
$ 193.70
$ 151.30 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5045 points
403% significantly better overall score
1002 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6765 points
265% significantly better gaming score
1852 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4495 points
489% significantly better multitasking score
762 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4358 points
496% significantly better heavy workload score
730 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

130.84 points
620% significantly higher Blender score
18.16 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6971 points
798% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
776 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1630 points
499% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
272 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7075 points
827% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
763 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1713 points
539% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
268 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz
66% significantly higher clock speed
2.40 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
10% slightly lower TDP
105 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
8 MiB
433% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

362nd of 1,125
976th of 1,125

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May
2007 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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