Intel Pentium 6405U vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

Pentium 6405U vs Core 2 Quad Q6600 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 beats the Pentium 6405U in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium 6405U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has significantly more cores than the Pentium 6405U. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium 6405U. But they both have the same number of threads. A Pentium 6405U CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q6600 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 6405U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.