AMD A8-6600K vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9505

A8-6600K vs Core 2 Quad Q9505 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 is faster than the A8-6600K. Despite this, the A8-6600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A8-6600K that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A8-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9505. In terms of cache, the A8-6600K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9505

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 A8-6600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.