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General information Core i5-6600 Core2 Duo E8300
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 Wolfdale
Clock 3.3 GHz 0 % 2.8 GHz 15.2 %
Cores 4 0 % 2 50 %
Threads 4 0 % 2 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 0 % 65 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 68.9 % 45 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 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core i5-6600 Core2 Duo E8300
Overall Score 44474 0 % 28335 36.3 %
Future Proof 49 % 0 % 10 % 79.6 %
Benchmark Score 3912 0 % 645 83.5 %
Single Thread Score 2263.5 0 % 1080.4 52.3 %
Encrypting Data 1816.2 MB/s 0 % 1451.2 MB/s 20.1 %
Compressing Data 80.7 MB/s 0 % 19.3 MB/s 76.1 %
String objects sorting 10021.8 thousand/s 0 % 2874.2 thousand/s 71.3 %
Prime numbers generation 29.2 millions/s 0 % 8.1 millions/s 72.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 15777.7 millions/s 0 % 4383.8 millions/s 72.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 13525.6 millions/s 0 % 2444.6 millions/s 81.9 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-6600, Core2 Duo E8300.

Average frames per second Core i5-6600 Core2 Duo E8300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 86.8 FPS 39.5 FPS
High settings 138.8 FPS 63.1 FPS
Medium settings 173.5 FPS 78.9 FPS
Low settings 216.9 FPS 98.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 54.5 %

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 E8300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 128.7 FPS 100.2 FPS
High settings 206.0 FPS 160.3 FPS
Medium settings 257.5 FPS 200.4 FPS
Low settings 321.8 FPS 250.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 22.2 %
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