AMD A8-6600K vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

A8-6600K vs Core 2 Quad Q9550 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 2 Quad Q9550 performs better 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 Q9550 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. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q9550. The info from our database shows that the A8-6600K has more L2 cache than the Core 2 Quad Q9550

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the A8-6600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.