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General information Core i5-6600 Core i5-2550K
Launched Q3 2015 Q1 2012
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1151 LGA1155
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Skylake-S Sandy Bridge
Clock 3.3 GHz 2.9 % 3.4 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.9 GHz 0 % 3.8 GHz 2.6 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 0 % 4 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 31.6 % 95 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 56.3 % 32 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
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 6 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core i5-6600 Core i5-2550K
Overall Score 44469 0 % 40434 9.1 %
Future Proof 49 % 0 % 28 % 42.9 %
Benchmark Score 3911 0 % 2673 31.7 %
Single Thread Score 2242.2 0 % 1767.3 21.2 %
Encrypting Data 1810.6 MB/s 0 % 1047.3 MB/s 42.2 %
Compressing Data 81.8 MB/s 0 % 66.3 MB/s 18.9 %
String objects sorting 10193.9 thousand/s 0 % 9014.9 thousand/s 11.6 %
Prime numbers generation 29.3 millions/s 0 % 26.2 millions/s 10.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 15999.7 millions/s 0 % 14496.5 millions/s 9.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 13521.6 millions/s 0 % 7539.4 millions/s 44.2 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-6600, Core i5-2550K.

Average frames per second Core i5-6600 Core i5-2550K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 86.8 FPS 74.8 FPS
High settings 138.9 FPS 119.7 FPS
Medium settings 173.6 FPS 149.7 FPS
Low settings 217.0 FPS 187.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.8 %

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 i5-6600 Core i5-2550K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 128.9 FPS 121.8 FPS
High settings 206.2 FPS 194.9 FPS
Medium settings 257.8 FPS 243.6 FPS
Low settings 322.3 FPS 304.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 5.5 %
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