AMD A10-7890K vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9505

A10-7890K vs Core 2 Quad Q9505 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 beats the A10-7890K in overall performance. Despite this, the A10-7890K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has significantly more cores than the A10-7890K. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A10-7890K. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A10-7890K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9505. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 Q9505 has more L2 cache than the A10-7890K

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 A10-7890K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.