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General information Core i5-6600 Core2 Duo E6550
Launched Q3 2015 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1151 LGA775
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core 2 Duo
Core Family Name Skylake-S Conroe
Clock 3.3 GHz 0 % 2.3 GHz 30.3 %
Cores 4 0 % 2 50 %
Threads 4 0 % 2 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 0 % 65 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 78.5 % 65 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
1 × 4 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core i5-6600 Core2 Duo E6550
Overall Score 44379 0 % 27443 38.2 %
Future Proof 49 % 0 % 10 % 79.6 %
Benchmark Score 3879 0 % 567 85.4 %
Single Thread Score 2266.8 0 % 901.5 60.2 %
Encrypting Data 1809 MB/s 0 % 1304.8 MB/s 27.9 %
Compressing Data 80.6 MB/s 0 % 18.7 MB/s 76.8 %
String objects sorting 10105.7 thousand/s 0 % 2577.1 thousand/s 74.5 %
Prime numbers generation 28.7 millions/s 0 % 5 millions/s 82.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 15939.3 millions/s 0 % 3575.2 millions/s 77.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 13328.5 millions/s 0 % 1891.9 millions/s 85.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-6600, Core2 Duo E6550.

Average frames per second Core i5-6600 Core2 Duo E6550
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 86.7 FPS 37.6 FPS
High settings 138.7 FPS 60.1 FPS
Medium settings 173.4 FPS 75.1 FPS
Low settings 216.7 FPS 93.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 56.7 %

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 Duo E6550
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 129.2 FPS 99.0 FPS
High settings 206.7 FPS 158.5 FPS
Medium settings 258.4 FPS 198.1 FPS
Low settings 323.0 FPS 247.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 23.3 %
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