Intel Pentium G3220 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 98.55
$ 95.15 significantly less expensive
$ 193.70

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1042 points
3% slightly better overall score
1002 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2272 points
22% slightly better gaming score
1852 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

744 points
762 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

714 points
730 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.22 points
18.16 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

883 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
776 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

499 points
83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
272 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

890 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
763 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

527 points
96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
268 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
24% slightly higher clock speed
2.40 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W
94% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

936th 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 August
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 G3220 vs Core 2 Quad Q6600 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium G3220 is faster than the Core 2 Quad Q6600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q6600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium G3220 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G3220. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G3220 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q6600. A Pentium G3220 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Pentium G3220 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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