Intel Pentium G3240 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

Pentium G3240 vs Core 2 Quad Q6600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G3240 beats the Core 2 Quad Q6600 in overall performance. 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 G3240 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G3240. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G3240 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q6600. A Pentium G3240 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 G3240 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.