Intel Pentium G2020 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

Compare Intel Pentium G Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

Price

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$ 34.99

$ 158.71 significantly less expensive

$ 193.70

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

934 points

1002 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2034 points

9% slightly better gaming score

1852 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

666 points

762 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

640 points

730 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.25 points

18.16 points

96% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

802 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

776 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

272 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

817 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

763 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

476 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

268 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

2.40 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

55 W

90% significantly lower TDP

105 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

972nd of 1,089

946th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium G Series

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

2007 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium G2020 vs Core 2 Quad Q6600 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 is faster than the Pentium G2020. Despite this, the Pentium G2020 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium G2020 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G2020. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G2020 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q6600. A Pentium G2020 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.

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. For instance, the Pentium G2020 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.