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Benchmarks for the Intel Core2 Duo E4600 can be found below. Release dates, price and performance comparisons are also listed when available. This is made using thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and is updated daily.
Is the Intel Core2 Duo E4600 @ 2.40GHz Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. [More ...]
Description:
Class: Desktop
Socket: LGA775
Clockspeed: 2.4 GHz
Cores: 2 Threads: 2
Typical TDP: 65 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 2 x 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 2 x 32 KB
L2 Cache: 1 x 2048 KB
Other names: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4600 @ 2.40GHz, Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4600 @ 2.40GHz, Intel Core2 Duo CPU E4600 @ 2.40GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q4 2008
CPUmark/$Price: 5.55
Overall Rank:
4444th fastest in multithreading out of 5442 CPUs
3835th fastest in single threading out of 5442 CPUs
1275th fastest in out of 1475 Desktop CPUs
Last Price Change: $157.95 USD (2019-01-18)
| Integer Math | 3,626 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 1,974 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 4 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 2,571 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 247.8 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 19,461 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 82 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 340 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 924 MOps/Sec |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 58,565 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 58,421 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 38,963 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,152 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,848 | |
| Intel Core i5-12400F | 19,512 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,117 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,687 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,653 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,146 | |
| Intel Core2 Duo E4600 @ 2.40GHz | 876 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 256.33 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 183.61 | |
| Intel Core i5-12400F | 145.34 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 138.16 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 130.43 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 103.40 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 47.80 | |
| Intel Core2 Duo E4600 @ 2.40GHz | 5.55 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 4,697 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 4,602 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,892 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,834 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,679 | |
| Intel Core i5-12400F | 3,485 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,468 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,364 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,916 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,561 | |
| Intel Core2 Duo E4600 @ 2.40GHz | 924 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL2930789 - Sep 24 2025 | 1006 | |
| BL2930710 - Sep 24 2025 | 568 | |
| BL2895539 - Sep 09 2025 | 1043 | |
| BL2889176 - Sep 06 2025 | 1019 | |
| BL2835380 - Aug 14 2025 | 1034 |
| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core2 Duo E4600 @ 2.40GHz | 876 | |
| AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+ vs Intel Core2 Duo E4600 | 719 (-17.9%) | |
| AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ vs Intel Core2 Duo E4600 | 730 (-16.7%) | |
| Intel Core2 Duo E7500 @ 2.93GHz vs Intel Core2 Duo E4600 | 1,156 (+31.9%) | |
| AMD A4-3420 APU vs Intel Core2 Duo E4600 | 1,067 (+21.7%) | |
| AMD Athlon 7750 Dual-Core vs Intel Core2 Duo E4600 | 1,005 (+14.7%) | |
| AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000+ vs Intel Core2 Duo E4600 | 942 (+7.5%) | |
| Intel Pentium E5300 @ 2.60GHz vs Intel Core2 Duo E4600 | 933 (+6.4%) | |
| AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+ vs Intel Core2 Duo E4600 | 912 (+4.0%) | |
| AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5000+ vs Intel Core2 Duo E4600 | 807 (-7.9%) | |
| AMD Athlon 5200 Dual-Core vs Intel Core2 Duo E4600 | 869 (-0.8%) | |
| AMD Athlon Dual Core 5000B vs Intel Core2 Duo E4600 | 856 (-2.3%) | |
| AMD Phenom 8450 Triple-Core vs Intel Core2 Duo E4600 | 1,221 (+39.4%) |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D | 12,425 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 12,136 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D | 11,255 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 10,801 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D | 10,504 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | 10,497 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 10,271 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 9,779 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D | 9,613 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265K | 9,500 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285 | 9,482 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 5 245K | 9,427 | |
| Intel Core2 Duo E4600 @ 2.40GHz | 145 |