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General information Core i5-6600 Core2 Quad Q9550
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 Yorkfield
Clock 3.3 GHz 0 % 2.8 GHz 15.2 %
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 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core i5-6600 Core2 Quad Q9550
Overall Score 44475 0 % 35071 21.1 %
Future Proof 49 % 0 % 10 % 79.6 %
Benchmark Score 3913 0 % 1513 61.3 %
Single Thread Score 2243.2 0 % 1221 45.6 %
Encrypting Data 1796.4 MB/s 47.9 % 3447.2 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 81.4 MB/s 0 % 48.5 MB/s 40.5 %
String objects sorting 10117.9 thousand/s 0 % 6485.3 thousand/s 35.9 %
Prime numbers generation 29.1 millions/s 0 % 18.8 millions/s 35.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 15912.6 millions/s 0 % 10604.7 millions/s 33.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 13317.1 millions/s 0 % 6058.1 millions/s 54.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-6600, Core2 Quad Q9550.

Average frames per second Core i5-6600 Core2 Quad Q9550
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 86.8 FPS 58.9 FPS
High settings 138.9 FPS 94.2 FPS
Medium settings 173.6 FPS 117.7 FPS
Low settings 217.0 FPS 147.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 32.2 %

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 Quad Q9550
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 128.8 FPS 112.3 FPS
High settings 206.1 FPS 179.7 FPS
Medium settings 257.7 FPS 224.6 FPS
Low settings 322.1 FPS 280.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 12.8 %
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