Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 vs Intel Core i5-6500. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Intel Core 2 Quad Intel Core i 6000
• Family
  Intel Core2 Duo Intel Core i5
• Generation
  2 6
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Successor
  - Intel Core i5-7500

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  2.5 GHz 3.2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.5 GHz 3.6 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  2.5 GHz 3.4 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  - 12
• Execution units
  - 24
• Generation
  - 9
• GPU Frequency
  - 350 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics 530
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1150 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 64 GB
• Release date
  - Q3/2015
• Shader
  - 192
• Technology
  - 14 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-6500 and Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  - 64 GB
• Memory channels
  0 2
• PCIe lanes
  - 16
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 and Intel Core i5-6500 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  95 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 and Intel Core i5-6500, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Yorkfield Skylake S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  6 MB 6 MB
• Release date
  Q1/2008 Q3/2015
• Socket
  AM1 LGA 1151
• Technology
  45 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d