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General information Core i5-6600 Core2 Duo E8500
Launched Q3 2015 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1151 LGA775
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core 2 Duo
Core Family Name Skylake-S Wolfdale
Clock 3.3 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 3 %
Cores 4 0 % 2 50 %
Threads 4 0 % 2 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 0 % 65 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 68.9 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core i5-6600 Core2 Duo E8500
Overall Score 44474 0 % 30055 32.4 %
Future Proof 49 % 0 % 10 % 79.6 %
Benchmark Score 3912 0 % 816 79.1 %
Single Thread Score 2265.8 0 % 1331.6 41.2 %
Encrypting Data 1793.6 MB/s 2.7 % 1844.2 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 81.3 MB/s 0 % 26.1 MB/s 67.9 %
String objects sorting 10175.6 thousand/s 0 % 3614.1 thousand/s 64.5 %
Prime numbers generation 29 millions/s 0 % 10 millions/s 65.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 15861 millions/s 0 % 5403.6 millions/s 65.9 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 13298.8 millions/s 0 % 3271.4 millions/s 75.4 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-6600, Core2 Duo E8500.

Average frames per second Core i5-6600 Core2 Duo E8500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 86.8 FPS 44.1 FPS
High settings 138.9 FPS 70.6 FPS
Medium settings 173.6 FPS 88.2 FPS
Low settings 217.0 FPS 110.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 49.2 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V Core i5-6600 Core2 Duo E8500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 128.8 FPS 103.3 FPS
High settings 206.0 FPS 165.2 FPS
Medium settings 257.5 FPS 206.5 FPS
Low settings 321.9 FPS 258.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 19.8 %
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