AMD A10-6800K vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

A10-6800K vs Core 2 Quad Q9650 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 beats the A10-6800K in overall performance. Despite this, the A10-6800K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has significantly more cores than the A10-6800K. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A10-6800K. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A10-6800K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9650. The Core 2 Quad Q9650 outputs less heat than A10-6800K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has more L2 cache than the A10-6800K

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A10-6800K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.