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General information Core i3-6300 Core2 Quad Q9400
Launched Q4 2015 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1151 LGA775
Series Name Intel Core i3 Intel Core 2 Quad
Core Family Name Skylake-S Yorkfield
Clock 3.8 GHz 0 % 2.7 GHz 28.9 %
Cores 2 50 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 0 % 4 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 51 W 46.3 % 95 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 68.9 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 2 × 256 kB
2 × 3 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i3-6300 Core2 Quad Q9400
Overall Score 40846 0 % 34134 16.4 %
Future Proof 50 % 0 % 10 % 80 %
Benchmark Score 2784 0 % 1357 51.3 %
Single Thread Score 2261.8 0 % 1143.7 49.4 %
Encrypting Data 1410.8 MB/s 54.5 % 3100.6 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 58.5 MB/s 0 % 45.2 MB/s 22.7 %
String objects sorting 7487.5 thousand/s 0 % 6126.4 thousand/s 18.2 %
Prime numbers generation 16 millions/s 0 % 9 millions/s 43.8 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 13080 millions/s 0 % 10123.3 millions/s 22.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 8132.7 millions/s 0 % 5590.6 millions/s 31.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i3-6300, Core2 Quad Q9400.

Average frames per second Core i3-6300 Core2 Quad Q9400
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 76.1 FPS 56.3 FPS
High settings 121.8 FPS 90.0 FPS
Medium settings 152.3 FPS 112.6 FPS
Low settings 190.3 FPS 140.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 26.1 %

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 i3-6300 Core2 Quad Q9400
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 122.9 FPS 110.9 FPS
High settings 196.6 FPS 177.5 FPS
Medium settings 245.8 FPS 221.8 FPS
Low settings 307.2 FPS 277.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 9.7 %
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