AMD A8-6500 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

A8-6500 vs Core 2 Quad Q9550 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 is faster than the A8-6500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6500 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has significantly more cores than the A8-6500. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-6500. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q9550. A A8-6500 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q9550 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the A8-6500

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the A8-6500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.