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Is the Intel Core2 Extreme Q6800 @ 2.93GHz Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. [More ...]
Description:
Class: Desktop
Socket: LGA775
Clockspeed: 2.9 GHz
Cores: 4 Threads: 4
Typical TDP: 75 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L2 Cache: 2 x 4096 KB
Other names: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU Q6800 @ 2.93GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q4 2008
CPUmark/$Price: 2.04
Overall Rank:
3399th fastest in multithreading out of 5776 CPUs
3406th fastest in single threading out of 5776 CPUs
943rd fastest in out of 1554 Desktop CPUs
Last Price Change: $1,125.00 USD (2010-07-23)
| Integer Math | 10,052 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 4,785 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 12 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 6,406 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 615.5 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 50,264 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 172 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 946 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 1,158 MOps/Sec |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 58,465 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 58,304 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 38,943 | |
| Apple M4 10 Core | 23,703 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,844 | |
| Intel Core i5-12400F | 19,578 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,091 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,680 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,641 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,133 | |
| Intel Core2 Extreme Q6800 @ 2.93GHz | 2,292 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 170.64 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 159.59 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 126.76 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 124.66 | |
| Intel Core i5-12400F | 122.37 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 107.97 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 60.63 | |
| Intel Core2 Extreme Q6800 @ 2.93GHz | 2.04 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M4 10 Core | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 4,695 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 4,600 | |
| Apple M4 10 Core | 4,516 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,886 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,676 | |
| Intel Core i5-12400F | 3,489 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,467 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,365 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,914 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,560 | |
| Intel Core2 Extreme Q6800 @ 2.93GHz | 1,158 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL3240952 - Jan 25 2026 | 2482 | |
| BL3240071 - Jan 25 2026 | 2472 | |
| BL2908413 - Sep 14 2025 | 2510 | |
| BL1659802 - Oct 30 2022 | 2302 | |
| BL1578341 - Jun 09 2022 | 2479 |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 | 14,501 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D | 12,422 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 12,123 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D | 11,257 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 10,794 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus | 10,695 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D | 10,515 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | 10,391 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 10,259 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D | 10,206 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 9,778 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D | 9,769 | |
| Intel Core2 Extreme Q6800 @ 2.93GHz | 170 |
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