Intel Pentium G4400 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

$ 25.99
$ 167.71 significantly less expensive
$ 193.70

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1247 points
24% slightly better overall score
1002 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2702 points
45% significantly better gaming score
1852 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

892 points
17% slightly better multitasking score
762 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

855 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score
730 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.46 points
18.16 points
34% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1182 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
776 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

683 points
151% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
272 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1158 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
763 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

680 points
153% 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

3.3 GHz
37% 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

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
8 MiB
1500% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

884th 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

2015 August
2007 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Pentium G4400 vs Core 2 Quad Q6600 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium G4400 performs better 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium G4400 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4400. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G4400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q6600. A Pentium G4400 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 info from our database shows that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has more L2 cache than the Pentium G4400

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. For instance, the Pentium G4400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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