Intel Pentium 5405U vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8600

Pentium 5405U vs Core 2 Duo E8600 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 2 Duo E8600 performs better than the Pentium 5405U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium 5405U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Pentium 5405U has more threads. A Pentium 5405U 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.

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 Pentium 5405U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.