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General information Core i5-6600 Core2 Quad Q8300
Launched Q3 2015 Q1 2009
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1151 LGA775
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core 2 Quad
Core Family Name Skylake-S Yorkfield
Clock 3.3 GHz 0 % 2.5 GHz 24.2 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 0 % 4 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 31.6 % 95 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
2 × 2 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core i5-6600 Core2 Quad Q8300
Overall Score 44468 0 % 33230 25.3 %
Future Proof 49 % 0 % 11 % 77.6 %
Benchmark Score 3910 0 % 1219 68.8 %
Single Thread Score 2279.3 0 % 1056.8 53.6 %
Encrypting Data 1803.4 MB/s 35.4 % 2792.7 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 81 MB/s 0 % 40.6 MB/s 49.8 %
String objects sorting 10021.8 thousand/s 0 % 5592.8 thousand/s 44.2 %
Prime numbers generation 28.9 millions/s 0 % 7 millions/s 75.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 15779.7 millions/s 0 % 9100.2 millions/s 42.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 13470 millions/s 0 % 5245.6 millions/s 61.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-6600, Core2 Quad Q8300.

Average frames per second Core i5-6600 Core2 Quad Q8300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 86.8 FPS 53.5 FPS
High settings 138.9 FPS 85.6 FPS
Medium settings 173.6 FPS 107.0 FPS
Low settings 217.0 FPS 133.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 38.4 %

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 Quad Q8300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 128.9 FPS 109.1 FPS
High settings 206.2 FPS 174.6 FPS
Medium settings 257.8 FPS 218.2 FPS
Low settings 322.2 FPS 272.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 15.3 %
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