Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs PS4/XB1 CPU?

[Red Hawk]

Any guess on how this CPU from 2007 stacks up against the octa-core Jaguars in the PS4 and XB1? I'm curious because my little brother's PC uses my old Q6600. It's got a higher clock speed (2.4 GHz vs PS4's 1.6/XB1's 1.75), though it's a Dell so it can't be overclocked, and obviously it's got half the cores/threads. I'm not sure how the IPC of Conroe and Jaguar compare.

 

[NTMBK]

Completely ballparking this here, but I think that the Q6600 would win in single threaded tasks and draw or lose in multithreaded tasks. Roughly.

This article compared a Kabini laptop with a Pentium 2020M (dual core Sandy Bridge running at 2.4GHz): http://www.anandtech.com/show/6974/amd-kabini-review/5 I'm using this to guesstimate performance figures.

(Side note: I'm rather annoyed that Anand has never added a Kabini or Silvermont CPU to his Bench tool. I use that very regularly to compare products, and to make recommendations to people on whether or not to upgrade. The CPU benches go as far back as a Pentium 4; it would be a real shame if they died off.)

EDIT: Forgot to mention that the Kabini in that article was running at 1.5GHz.

 

[SPBHM]

I think the Q6600 would be a better PC gaming CPU, but overall the console CPU have theoretically more performance for MT.

ST performance is significantly higher with the Q6600, but it's 8 vs 4 cores...
Q6600 runs at 2.4GHz, the PS4 CPU at 1.6GHz, and Jaguar is not faster per clock than the Q6600, it should be close (at same clock), but no higher.

 

[mindbomb]

if you could overclock the q6600, it would probably be close in a lot of multithreaded situations. If the program supports AVX and scales to 8 cores, I think the jaguar would easily be on top though.

 

[wilds]

I would gladly take the 2 jaguar modules over the Q6600. It is so much more power efficient, and more threads.

If I was playing games that were bottlenecking a thread, the Q6600 would win.

 

[SPBHM]

Cinebench R11.5

• AMD QuadCore A6-5200 2.0GHz: 1,99pts
• Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz: 2,70pts
• Intel OctaCore Atom C2750 2.4GHz (@2.6GHz Turbo): 3,81pts
• AMD EightCore FX-9370 @ 2.4GHz: 4,16pts
• Intel Core i7-4770K @ 2.4GHz: 5,18pts

source: http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/topic/review/20131221_628428.html
source: http://adrenaline.uol.com.br/biblioteca/analise/784/amd-a6-5200-kabini.html?pg=03

the PS4 CPU runs at 1.6GHz,
1.5GHz quad core Jaguar scores 1.5
1.6GHz would probably be something around 1.6
8 core 1.6GHz Jaguar maybe around 3-3.2?

Q6600 at 3GHz achieves around 3.3
stock around 2.7

considering most PC software is not going to scale as well as CB with 8 cores, Q6600 should be better (if you exclude power usage)

 

[Erenhardt]

nvm