Intel Pentium 4417U vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8600

Pentium 4417U vs Core 2 Duo E8600 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Duo E8600 is faster than the Pentium 4417U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium 4417U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Pentium 4417U has more threads. A Pentium 4417U CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E8600 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Pentium 4417U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.