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General information Core i5-6400 Core2 Quad Q6600
Launched Q3 2015 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1151 LGA775
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core 2 Quad
Core Family Name Skylake-S Kentsfield
Clock 2.7 GHz 0 % 2.4 GHz 11.1 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 0 % 4 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 38.1 % 105 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 78.5 % 65 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 × 4 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core i5-6400 Core2 Quad Q6600
Overall Score 42754 0 % 32899 23.1 %
Future Proof 49 % 0 % 10 % 79.6 %
Benchmark Score 3341 0 % 1171 65 %
Single Thread Score 1959 0 % 954.9 51.3 %
Encrypting Data 1472.1 MB/s 44.7 % 2661.7 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 70.1 MB/s 0 % 38.9 MB/s 44.5 %
String objects sorting 8968 thousand/s 0 % 5307.1 thousand/s 40.8 %
Prime numbers generation 26.2 millions/s 0 % 10 millions/s 62 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 13477.3 millions/s 0 % 7822.3 millions/s 42 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 11540.3 millions/s 0 % 3980.5 millions/s 65.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-6400, Core2 Quad Q6600.

Average frames per second Core i5-6400 Core2 Quad Q6600
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 81.7 FPS 52.5 FPS
High settings 130.8 FPS 84.0 FPS
Medium settings 163.4 FPS 105.0 FPS
Low settings 204.3 FPS 131.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 35.8 %

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 i5-6400 Core2 Quad Q6600
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 125.9 FPS 108.6 FPS
High settings 201.5 FPS 173.7 FPS
Medium settings 251.8 FPS 217.2 FPS
Low settings 314.8 FPS 271.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.8 %
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