E2160 vs E6300

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As you can see, the E2160 is definitely slower than the E6300 at stock, as the lower cache decreases the performance ~13%. Even at 3.3Ghz, the E2160 does not manage to surpass the E6300 at 3Ghz, the gap is closed to 6%.

The DIVX5 encoding test is different, no real sign of a performance impact here, the extra 1Mb L2 cache on E6300 doesn’t make a real difference here.

If you don’t want to experiment with overclocking and want out of the box performance, the E2160 doesn’t do bad either, while it lags the more expensive E6300 is some areas (file/audio/video compression) in others it’s pretty much on par (games). Intel is phasing out the E6300 model for a newer one, the E6320 which features 4Mb L2 cache, the retail price for that one is ~€140, which is not a bad deal of course, but still features the low 7x multiplier.